Within the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform scenario, a new policy for mental healthcare specifically for children and adolescents is under construction. However, studies have indicated that hospitalization in psychiatric institutions still occurs among this population. As a preliminary research result over a two-month period, we identified who are these children and adolescents in a hospital with psychiatric beds were and the reasons for their hospitalization. We analyzed the medical files of 28 subjects using a hermeneutic dialectic approach. The results indicated that hospitalization of cases with a profile similar to that of the time before the reform of psychiatric care was continuing and that the main reason for hospitalization related to aggressiveness and dangerousness. It was concluded that, despite the reform, psychiatric hospitalization in institutions of asylum nature is still occurring.
Mental health; Hospitalization; Deinstitutionalization