A arte de viver: um relato sobre o desenvolvimento de grupo de promoção à saúde mental com adolescentes

Abstract

Mental Health has different fields and ways of acting, enabling the creation of other ways of doing health, mainly from the psychiatric reform. The objective is to develop an alternative way of working in mental health in primary care, inserting the adolescent public within the actions of the Basic Health Unit (BHU), promoting mental health care and adding participatory methodologies in the assistance process, strengthening basic care. This is an account of the experience of group development focused on mental health care, with the target audience of teenagers, in the neighborhood Walfredo Gurgel, in the city of Caicó / RN. There were teenagers who participated in six meetings with participatory methodologies and Integrative and Complementary Practices (ICP’s) such as art therapy, story tent and biodance. Group cohesion, the elaboration of experiences and the sharing of experiences that served as health production were perceived and the subjects were active in this process. Showing itself as a possibility of promoting mental health within the context of primary care. However, there is still a need for greater dissemination of mental health practices in Primary Care, in order to strengthen the Psychosocial Care Network, increasing the offer of care with different methodologies