Abordagens Da Terapia Ocupacional Em Consonância Com as Transformações Da Assistência Em Saúde Mental No Brasil

Abstract

Psychiatric care in Brazil was organized historically by a qualified healthcare model for healthcare practices that emphasized the symptoms, is bringing into effect through long admissions to psychiatric hospitals, neglect and maltreatment. However, this reality has undergone gradual transformations. In this, this paper presents the historical trajectory of occupational therapy, aiming to show how community strategies began to be relevant to this profession, from a critical view of their theoretical and methodological assumptions. In this sense, the interventions to the population with mental disorders should turn to the development of strategies to promote changes in the social space occupied by these people and the construction and / or redemption of territorial networks. In view of the proposed objective, a literature review to identify an overview of the technical and theoretical production of occupational therapy between the years 2002 to 2008 was performed. Were consulted Brazilian articles related to the topic, published in scientific journals indexed in LILACS and SciELO. Selected articles underwent analysis and discussion based on the process of psychiatric reform and democratization of assistance; understanding of health; consideration of the activity, and the specificity of the occupational therapist. This analysis allows to identify the changes that are occurring in Mental Health care in Brazil due to the changes in the practice of occupational therapist.