Atenção psicossocial infantojuvenil: uma prática para a revolução das infâncias?/Psychosocial attention of children and youth: a practice for the childhood revolution?

Author(s):  
Juliana Araújo Silva ◽  
Elizabeth M. F. Araújo Lima

Objetivo: O artigo pretende fazer uma discussão sobre a prática da atenção psicossocial infantojuvenil, suas potências e desafios em engendrar transformações que pautem e promovam escapes das forças normativas da infância, que fortalecem o mundo adultocêntrico. Ele é fruto da tese de doutorado “Políticas do encontro e as forças selvagens na clínica infantojuvenil”, desenvolvida na Universidade Estadual Paulista-Assis, no Programa de Pós- Graduação em Psicologia. Método: A tese seguiu as pistas do método cartográfico e teceu discussões sobre a prática do acompanhamento das infâncias e juventudes nas dimensões micropolítica e macropolítica. Neste texto, pretendemos pensar a atenção psicossocial em aliança com múltiplas forças e buscar intercessores que possam estabelecer conexões locais com os processos históricos do Brasil, para pensar as crianças e os CAPSij situados na reforma psiquiátrica brasileira. Conclusão: O percurso trilhado afirma a urgência de construir espaços menos adultocêntricos, que validem as infâncias e a complexidade de seus universos nas singularidades dos acompanhamentos; e, assim, sustentem maneiras de dar continuidade ao fluxo de construção das práticas em saúde mental no contexto nacional, incluindo a participação dos corpos infantis de maneira a afiançar a potência inventiva dos mesmos.Palavras-chave: Terapia Ocupacional. Atenção Primária à Saúde. Saúde da Criança. Bem-estar da InfânciaAbstractObjective: The article intends to discuss the practice of mental health for children and adolescents, their strengths and challenges in generating transformations that guide and promote escapes from normative forces that strengthen the adult-centric world. It starts from the doctoral thesis “The Politics of the encounter and the wild forces in the child and young people care” developed at Universidade Estadual Paulista-Assis in the Post- Graduate Program in Psychology. Method: The thesis discussed the mental health practice in the monitoring of children and youth in the micropolitical and macropolitical dimensions. In this text we intend to establish local connections with brazilians historical processes and to think of  children and CAPSij located in the Brazilian psychiatric reform. Conclusion: the path affirmed the urgency of building less adult-centric spaces, which validate childhoods and the complexity of their universe in the singularities of the accompaniments; and so support ways to continue the flow of construction of mental health practices in the national context, including the participation of children's bodies in order to secure their inventive power.Keywords: Mental Health. Child Psychiatry. Public Health ResumenObjetivo:El artículo pretende discutir la práctica de la salud mental en niños y adolescentes, sus fortalezas y desafíos para generar transformaciones que orienten y promuevan escapes desde a fuerzas normativas que fortalecen el mundo adulto-céntrico. Se parte de la tesis doctoral “Políticas de Encuentros y fuerzas salvajes en la clínica infantil” desarrollada en la Universidade Estadual Paulista-Assis en el Programa de Posgrado en Psicología. Metodo:La tesis siguió el método cartográfico y discutió la práctica de la salud mental en el seguimiento de niños y jóvenes en las dimensiones micropolítica y macropolítica. En este texto pensar en la salud mental en alianza con múltiples fuerza: buscar intercesores que pudieran establecer conexiones locales y pensar en los niños y CAPSij ubicados en la reforma psiquiátrica brasileña. Conclusión: el camino de la investigación afirma la urgencia de construir espacios menos adultos, que validen las infancias y la complejidad de su universo en las singularidades de los acompañamientos; y así apoyar formas de continuar el flujo de construcción de prácticas de salud mental en el contexto nacional, incluida la participación de los cuerpos de los niños para asegurar su capacidad inventiva.Palabras Clave: Salud Mental. Psiquiatría Infantil. Salud Pública 

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152096386
Author(s):  
Vignapana Komanapalli ◽  
Deepa Rao

This study aimed to identify how mental health practice and policy in India can better address the needs of Dalit women and men in Indian institutions of higher education. Left unexamined, psychiatric and mental health practices and policies have become complicit in a legal and political network that actively denies the reality of caste discrimination in modern India. Frequently, Dalit students who choose to end their lives are described as having personal problems and depression, which enables institutional authorities to circumvent legal justice against caste discrimination and violence. Using an anthropological methodology of close readings of Dalit biographies and a review of ethnographic research, government reports, and online documentaries on the experiences of Dalit men and women, this study suggests that mental health practice and policy can change confidentiality laws, decriminalize student support groups, and build networks of institutional and policy support for Dalit students.


1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Robert Sevigny

This paper uncovers some dimensions of Singapore's mental health practices which, compared with western ones, indicate an alternative view on “community.” Singapore's culture is rich in community life based on larger systems of reference like language, religion, history, and tradition. This gives more salience to social dimensions often ignored or poorly taken into account by western specialists speaking about community approaches. The author puts forward the idea, through an analysis of interviews done with practitioners in the mental health field, that community redefined as it is in Singapore penetrates the institutions of mental health practice. Consequently, a community development model need not be limited to local and immediate community issues: It could also address more global community references systems, which create deep and lively cultural grounds for people's lives.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document