Educação permanente: desafios e potencialidades no processo de transformação das práticas de saúde mental

Abstract

Mental health care has undergone several conceptual transformations in recent years, changes in people's behavior regarding mental health practices is a complex process, involving several behavioral and cultural changes that consequently generates insecurity and resistance from professionals. The training, the continuous training of the team, aims at changing attitudes, values, objectives and skills that seeks to excel in the principles and in the reorientation of mental health policies. The present study aims to know the perceptions of professionals in a CAPS AD about the preparation for the care of users of psychoactive substances, to know which devices and strategies of care are performed by professionals in the daily service, to verify if the professionals of CAPS AD they obtained some qualification or qualification in the area of expertise, to know the limitations and difficulties faced by the team for the provision of care to users of psychoactive substances and to investigate the conception of the professionals regarding the role of permanent education in the practice of care. This is a qualitative, exploratory study, which was carried out in a CAPS AD in a municipality on the western border of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in August 2016. For data collection, an unstructured interview was conducted. Ten workers from different professional categories participated in the study. For data analysis, content analysis was used. From the data collected were divided into three thematic categories, namely: knowing the team: training in Mental Health and past experiences of professionals, assistance provided to CAPS AD users through light technologies and permanent education as a strategy for qualifying care: challenges and potential. CAPS AD professionals have a great deal of interest in participating in permanent education processes, the interest in qualifying makes it possible to change their practices, on the other hand, it can be believed that the permanent education of these workers requires more than educational actions, preparatory courses, it is necessary to have support for the construction of comprehensive permanent education systems within the service itself, so that they can assist them both in knowledge and in care strategies, favoring the exchange of experience between health services and staff.