Terapia comunitária integrativa em saúde mental: por uma atenção dialógica, por um cuidado extramuros

Abstract

From the contributions of the Health Reform and Psychiatric and with the advent of the Unified Health System (SUS), ruptures occurred in a number of structural paradigms of health and illness and a host of new technologies to make health emerged in a universal proposition integral and focusing on promotion of care. Among them, we have the Community Integrative Therapy (TCI) as facilitator of interpersonal relationships, valuing life experiences and fomenting empowerment. Based on these questions, this study aimed to analyze the TCI as a device to promote care in Mental Health. This is an experience report, critical-interpretative character about the implantation and conduction of 26 TCI wheels in three different scenarios in a municipality of Ceará within the context of Health Residency program of a public educational institution in Ceará. The base material of this study were observant participation, evaluation sheets and field diaries of community therapists. The results obtained demonstrated that TCI contributed as an important care technology within the context of Mental Health, especially in the perspective of community oriented attention in the production of life networks.