ABSTRACT
Objective:
to analyze Therapeutic Follow-Up (TF) and Network Intervention (NI) as devices for social network/Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS - Centro de Atenção Psicossocial) user staff construction.
Method:
an ethnographic study. Data collection instruments were participant observation, field diary, semi-structured interviews and Sluzki’s Minimal Map of Relationships. The research site was at a CAPS II of the city of São Paulo. Participants were CAPS user, their family network, professionals and other users. Data analysis took place through Minayo’s thematic content analysis framework and Sluzki’s personal maps.
Results:
TF and NI led to greater social participation, autonomy and reorganization of family roles and treatment in CAPS.
Conclusion:
the TF associated with NI was potent in strengthening the user’s personal/social network and in including them in community activities.
Descriptors:
Mental Health; Social Support; Rehabilitation; Personal Autonomy; Ethnography
Note: the Map can be systematized in 4 (four) quadrants: 1 - family; 2 - friendship; 3 - work or school relations; 4 - community, service or creed relations. Three circles of these quadrants are inscribed: internal (closest to the central point, the intermediary represents the individual being mapped), which will contain the most intimate relationships; intermediary, which will contain relations with a lower degree of commitment; external relations, which will cover the most occasional relationships.
Note: Friendships: 1- Th (thunder), Di (Diego); 2- Lu (Luciano), Mo (Mouse); 3- Mu (Murilo), Na (Naldo), De (Denis), Li (Lice); Family: 1- Ma (Maria), N (Natália); T (Tales), A (Augusto), V (Veronica), J (José), Ri (Ricardo), Od (Odvan), E (Edson); Community relationships: 3- S (Soraia – home office in Praia Grande), Ev (husband of S), Ar (Ariana), G (Gisela) and F (Fabiana) daughters of S and EV; CAPS: 1- Al (Alvaro), L (Lucio), Pe (researcher), Dr (psychiatrist); 2-R (Renato), M (Marcus), B (Beatriz); 3- The (Larissa), D (Dolores).
Note: Friendships: blank; Family: 1- Ma (Maria), N (Natália), T (Tales), A (Augusto), V (Verônica), Ri (Ricardo), Od (Odvan); 3- J (José); Community relationshipships: blank; CAPS: 1- Al (Alvaro - safety), Pe (researcher), Dr (doctor), R (Renato) and M (Marcus), La (Larissa) and D (Dolores) nursing techniques), Jg (Jorge - nurse), An (Angelica - cleaning employee); 2- L (Lucio - maintenance employee.