User embracement in a psychosocial care center (caps): experience report of a doctor in training

Abstract

Introduction: Services aimed at psychosocial care are essential for guaranteeing the rights of the assisted population, acquiring a long process, and still current, called Psychiatric Reform, with a public policy design of strategies and programs for the effectiveness of care aimed at the individual and their social context. Among these, embracement stands out as an interlocutor in the processes that involve the user of the Psychosocial Care Network and the services provided by the health units, with emphasis on the Psychosocial Care Center and in particular care related to alcohol and drug users (CAPSad). The present experience report aims to present the nuances of embracement present in the services and activities provided by a CAPSad in a municipality in the interior of Bahia and the importance of this experience for medical training. Experience report: the experiences were presented in four moments: first contacts and the experience of getting to know the CAPSad; Symposium on the care of users of alcohol and other drugs, monitoring medical consultations in mental health and carrying out activities in the waiting room and with therapeutic groups. Discussion: The experiences of comprehensive mental health care enabled the medical student to experience embracement and the singularities of psychosocial care; understand the vulnerabilities of people who use alcohol and illicit drugs; the importance of the family in the care process; participate in medical consultations based on the Person-Centered Clinical Method; as well as multiprofessional care for the integrality of health actions. Conclusion: Comprehensive mental health care constitutes a challenging and necessary topic for the training of the future physician. The inclusion of the student in the psychosocial care network favors the processes aimed at teaching-learning and strengthens the teaching-service-community integration.