O Autismo e o cotidiano de trabalho na estratégia de saúde da família: uma escuta dos profissionais

Abstract

The dissemination of the term autism and the wide space for discussion that the subject has been discussed by the media channels can favor misjudgments and hasty diagnoses, making the figures increase. Part of the equipment responsible for identifying these cases is the Centro de Saúde da Família, being the first place to contact Mental Health issues before hospital routing to the Centros de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS). Therefore, it is known the importance of designing working paths with professionals in order to make the Family Health Strategy actually operates with the family and these spaces' demands on health in relation to autismo, not being necessarilly through private means of service. This simple data drives the discussion about how important is a consolidation for the SUS and how, by listening to what professionals have to say, new ways of intervention can be found. The objective of the study is to understand the care of autism by the professionals of the Family Health Strategy. The methodology used was the index method, influenced by Psychoanalysis, and used the semistructured interviews as a data collecting tool with a team from the Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família, another team from Residência em Saúde da Família, two nurses and three community health agents.The work was carried out in two Centros de Saúde da Família, in Sobral - CE. As some results, we found a need for spaces with permanent education on autism and mental health in general for primary care professionals, especially those requested by community health agents, as well as the lack-of or small reference on autism in general grad courses, which generates strangeness for the current theme. It is believed that this work is relevant for being directly related to the possibility of listening and stopping the professionals' work dynamics so that they, as it was possible to identify in some interviews, rethink their practices and make questions to the SUS itself in order to reaffirm it, confront it, understand its limits and think of possibilities of innovation as well.