The Care Transfer: a device for analysis of shared care in network psychosocial care

Abstract

This is a qualitative research that aims to understand how the care transfer is executed between Centers for Psychosocial Care (CAPS) and Primary Health Care in a metropolitan city of Curitiba-PR. Twelve professionals participated the research through semi-structured interviews and to analysis of the data was used the theoretical framework of Institutional Analysis. The care transfer is understood and operationalized by professionals through the logic of forwarding and lack of accountability like an unshared care and the continuity of care in the health unit predominating as a medicalizing care. However all professionals participating in the research understand the need to build new forms of care to enable communication between the services and list several practices to question the instituted paradigm. It is understood that in every process of institutionalization of care models there are already established processes and lines of escape from the hegemonic model. Therefore it can be said that it is necessary to question the work processes and crystallized practices to be possible overcome them.