Serviço social e atuais tendências do exercício profissional na saúde mental em João Pessoa/PB

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the professional practice of social workers in mental health services located in the city of João Pessoa / PB, in order to reveal the occurrence of syncretism. The research is characterized as a qualitativequantitative, exploratory-type and field-based study associated with a bibliographic analysis. The research was carried out in 06 (six) mental health services located in the city of João Pessoa: Juliano Moreira Psychiatric Complex, Mental Health Care Attendance (PASM), Center for Psychosocial Child and Adolescent Cirandar, Center for Psychosocial Alcohol and Drug Attention David Capistrano, Psychosocial Care Center III Gutemberg Botelho, Center for Psychosocial Care Walk, from October 2017 to February 2018. Sixteen (16) social service professionals of the mentioned services were interviewed. professional practice of social workers in mental health services. The research used was of the explanatory type, since it occupied with the reason of the phenomena observed and, according to its data sources, it is also characterized as a field research. The primary data were organized in two dimensions: qualitative data analyzed based on content analysis by categorization; and the quantitative data were organized from graphs and charts. The debate about the professional exercise is recurring within the professional category, also recurring the inflections suffered and the trends assumed in the professional exercise. Thus, it was inquired whether professional practice in the field of mental health reveals the occurrence of syncretism, according to studies by Netto (2005) and Maranhão (2016). The result of the research brought the presence of three tendencies in the professional exercise: the clinical, the instrumental and the critic, it is understood that they express a certain syncretic movement in the work of the social workers in mental health, alternating in such a way that the the same professional takes on characteristic elements of each of these tendencies at different moments of the professional daily life. Therefore, it was concluded that the syncretic character of the profession as a result of many factors: professional identity, lack of continuous training, restriction of the conditions of social policies, hegemony of psi knowledge; lack of qualification of the social, neoliberal offensive and the very argument of the syncretism in the profession.