ABSTRACT.
This study aims to analyze a process of Continuing Education in Health (CEH) developed with professionals from public mental health care centers in Brazil. The research was guided by social constructionist perspective which considers language as a form of social action and is interested in interactive and dialogical processes involved in knowledge construction. Seven meetings were held with a group of ten professionals. Conversations were recorded, transcribed and analyzed qualitatively by the delimitation of critical moments. We explored the analysis of two critical moments, which indicate the occurrence of transformation of meanings related to the importance of practices developed by professionals and to the possibility of families' participation in care. They were called: “‘Affection is transformative”: ’: building the importance of practice and CEH meetings, and “‘We are prescribing co-responsibility”: ’: transforming the sense of participation of families. Through their analysis, we discuss the centrality of the conversational process in the configuration of dialogical possibilities, with emphasis on responsiveness as a basic facilitating resource to promote dialogue.
Keywords:
Continuing education; mental health personnel; social constructionism