O familismo no contexto de adoecimento mental e suas implicações na rede de apoio

Abstract

This Course Completion Work is the result of an internship experience report that problematizes the impacts of familism on the mental illness of family caregivers of users of the mental health inpatient unit at in a hospital in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. An analysis of the intervention carried out with four users hospitalized in this unit was carried out with the aim of revealing how familism resulting from neoliberalism attributes responsibilities for caring for the most fragile members to the family itself, generating an overload of responsibility that is not shared with the State, producing illness. mentality of caregivers. The results of the analysis demonstrate that poverty hinders the care of children by parents in a process in which the State, instead of contributing to families, delegates its social responsibilities to them, generating suffering and violations of rights. They also demonstrate that such care activities tend to be undertaken mainly by women who are socially educated to take on reproductive care activities for other family members in a process that produces mental illness in them. As propositions of the study, it is suggested that social movements intend for the State to develop social assistance policies to help families in their tasks of offering protection to their members.