Compreensões e práticas dos psicólogos acerca da promoção da saúde e prevenção de doenças na estratégia de saúde da família no município de Sobral-ce.

Abstract

The change in the epidemiological profile of the world population has raised the need to invest in other models of intervention in the health-disease process. The increase in chronic and degenerative diseases, as well as those related to life habits, pointed to the fragility of the biomedical model, whose performance remained centered on illness, considering health only the absence of affections, therefore, a hospital-centered model whose execution entailed high costs. In contrast to this model emerges the perspective of Primary Health Care (PHC) bringing as a proposal the investment in light technologies that anticipate illness, aimed at health promotion, prevention of diseases and diseases. Given these characteristics, the APS model began to incorporate other knowledge to practice in the field of health, among which is Psychology. In Brazil, the idea of PHC permeates the entire Unified Health System (SUS) and the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is understood as PHC in the SUS. From the perspective of PHC, we seek through this study to understand how psychology can promote health and prevent diseases in the ESF, starting from the understanding of the psychologists about what characterizes their practice in the service, what the understanding about health promotion and what practices they in this regard. As a research methodology, we use qualitative research, since we will observe the meanings of psychological doing, as well as practices and understandings from a promotion / prevention perspective. As instruments for the production of data we conduct a semi-structured interview. The methodology for the treatment of the data was Discourse Analysis. From the study we could observe that the Psychology in the NASF, still goes through a process of construction surrounded by challenges, which involve the incomprehension on the part of the psychologists themselves and the team of how it should contribute with the service, which leads them to resort to clinical practice. However, there is great potential for the collaboration of Psychology with NASF, especially with regard to health promotion.