De nó em nós: competências relacionais na formação do Terapeuta Ocupacional

Abstract

This study focuses on the path of experiences I had in graduation/formation for the development of a way of being/doing occupational therapy, and the importance of practical experiences and a sensitive attitude to the affectations of the encounter/appointment with the people we accompany and their stories. In this sense, this study refers to my own experience in the formation and development of these relational competences in building a therapeutic bond during my first practice with a family in brief home care in Primary Care, in an urban peripheral neighborhood of a northeastern capital. The methodological path of this study relates my experience and analyzes it in the first person, with the aim of highlighting my place as an active subject of the events described and of the knowledge generated by this experience. Therefore, a free narrative named “Interlacings - from knot to us” was written regarding my perspective on the encounters that took place with the family during the therapeutic process. From this, I make a theoretical-reflexive analysis that dialogues with the themes and concepts that are evidenced by the narrative. I highlight the movement - therapeutic-occupational - of understanding and acknowledging whoever is in front of me, of getting closer to the extent that the other allows me, of inviting a relationship of care with me, of testing different ways of relating to people, of betting and to invest in those who make themselves available to my intervention, to explore possibilities and to reflect on what people do. Along the way, I discuss the importance of building a therapeutic bond for care relationships and highlight the relevance of practical activities during graduation in the development of relational competences - knowledge, skills and attitudes - of occupational therapists. I assume that reading people's reality constitutes the reasoning that underpins the professional's performance. These aspects that call my attention as an occupational therapist, evidenced in the writing of this study, communicate to me about the way of life of these people, offer content for the formation of the therapeutic bond and, at the same time, for the care of the subjects. It was, therefore, the occupational therapist's own relational competences, fundamental in the formative process of my skills and attitudes, ethically and theoretically supported, which were established in the midst of the complexity of everyday life and interpersonal relationships, and which were constituted in care practices.