Programa de extensão: clínica, estética e política do cuidado

Abstract

This paper presents the extension program “Clinic, Aesthetics and Care Policy”, denoting the various axes that are searched in this action. This program’s main objectives are to offer psychoanalitical orientation service to children and adolescents in psychological distress and their care takers as well as to foster the training of students and professionals in the clinical institutional work with this clientele, in an interdisciplinary perspective. It is conducted in partnership with the Centro de Referência à Infância (Childhood Reference Center) - INCERE, which provides clinical supervision. In 2015, still as an extension project, it held two study groups and two local symposia on related themes. As new activities for 2016, there are plans for the establishment and formalization of partnerships with other institutions, expansion and strengthenening of the service related to the social assistance network, as well as training in clinical management of processes. In its first year, in its various areas (clinical practice, supervision and administrative meetings), it was possible to discuss relevant current issues within the public mental health policy: the quarrel of diagnoses, fragility and disarticulation of psychosocial care network, childhood medicalization, importance of interdisciplinary work and inter-sectorial coordination for care.