O O CUIDADO EM SAÚDE MENTAL NA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA: PERCEPÇÃO DOS PROFISSIONAIS PERCEPÇÃO DOS PROFISSIONAIS

Abstract

Primary Care is the gateway to mental health demands, having a fundamental role in the articulation with the Psychosocial Care Network and in the implementation of the psychiatric reform with the production of new modes of care in mental health within the principles of integrality, interdisciplinarity, intersectoriality and territoriality. This study aimed to analyze the perception of mental health care of professionals at a Basic Health Unit. This is a qualitative exploratory research carried out with professionals working at a Basic Health Unit located in the city of Apucarana, Paraná. Collection of data was performed using the technique of focus group interviews with the support of a script with guiding questions, in which the statements were recorded and transcribed in full. For an analysis of the collected data, we opted for the content analysis technique, which in common define five thematic nuclei: Access to the service; Reception; Follow-up; Potentialities in mental health care and Weaknesses in mental health care. In this study, the perception of mental health care of primary care professionals about mental health care within the territory is still restricted to the medicalizing and psychologizing biomedical logic of life.