The texture of the collective construction of mental health indicators in Psychosocial Care Centers

ABSTRACT

Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) are community services that aim to promote rehabilitation for people with mental suffering. Quality assessment can be measured through mental health indicators, a field that is under development. This study is an experience report that has the discourse objective of the process of collective construction of mental health indicators of a CAPS Adult and CAPS Alcohol and Drugs in a health region of the city of São Paulo, carried out in the period between 2020 and 2021. As a result of these, the work indicators of the process were collectively created: articulation with primary care and crisis care and the specific result indicator for each CAPS: psychosocial rehabilitation. The collaborative construction of the mental health analysis process and the reflection on the indicators-evidence of the potential of the participatory elaboration of the assistance individuals of the work and of each service. It was identified in this construction as the availability of challenges, gap in the training of professionals, course of specific literature and pauses due to the contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic.

KEYWORDS
Mental health; Health status indicators; Mental health services