Psychological Care in Basic Health Units-Ubs: Repercussions and Outcomes

Abstract

Due to the great demand for psychological care in Basic Health Units (UBS), several intervention proposals have been carried out, aiming at quality care covering a greater number of people. A resource that has been used very often are therapeutic consultations, which allow careful listening, in which the therapist can work with the patient on their anguish, suffering and problems. Based on this service proposal, this work aimed to raise a critical reflection regarding the realization of therapeutic consultations by psychology students in a Basic Health Unit -BHU in Greater São Paulo. Twenty-eight patients of both genders, aged between 4 and 68 YEARS, participated in the research, who, after performing a screening, were divided into two groups: Group I, with a single meeting based on the model of therapeutic consultations, and Group II with which individual psychological care was performed with 12 sessions. It was observed that the two methods of psychological care were highly effective in seeking to provide psychological care to the large portion of the population that seeks this type of care in public health services.