SAÚDE MENTAL E SERVIÇO SOCIAL: Relato de experiência da implantação do Serviço Social no Ambulatório de psiquiatria do HULW

Abstract

The present study is a Completion of Course Work, at the undergraduate level in Social Work, which aimed to describe a teaching and learning experience in the Medical Clinic and in the Psychiatry sector of the Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley (HULW), during the supervised internship I and II, from December 10, 2018 to September 26, 2019. In this sense, the methodology developed was the descriptive and predominantly qualitative perspective of analysis, of the experience report type, in order to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical in solidifying learning. As a result of the bibliographic and documentary study regarding public health care and the Brazilian Mental Health Policy, a constant setback was noticed regarding the guarantee of rights enacted in the Federal Constitution of 1988, legitimized mainly by the current government of the President of the Republic. Republic Jair Bolsonaro, which does not invest in public social policies for the population. Regarding the Brazilian Social Service and its insertion in the National Mental Health Policy, its struggle for the humanization of services and in defense of anti-asylum treatments and for the democratization of social assistance rights was observed. As well, it was confirmed the social worker's confrontation with the mercantilist and privatist logic of the capitalist system, legitimizing himself professionally in a critical way as a category, even in the face of the conjunctural and structural challenges posed to the profession. Regarding the experience report, the importance of supervised internship in academic training was observed, as a way of approaching professional practice, ratifying the entire theoretical framework of graduation, exercising the acquired knowledge and building new reflections, inherent to such experience. It is concluded that the social worker continues to face the challenge of facing the impasses of a government situation immensely adverse to social rights, which include the attack on the rights conquered in public health policy in general and in mental health policy. This professional aims at the socialization of qualified information, which leads to the search for the viability of rights.