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Relationship technology and the care-of-other in group therapeutic approaches at center of psychosocial attention in fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

We aimed to comprehend how the group of therapeutic approaches has been constructed in production of daily care in the Psycho-social Attention Centers in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. We opted for the qualitative approach of research. The subjects of this study were the Psycho-social Attention Centers workers who develop group therapeutic approach activities and therapeutic group users, using the focus group with the workers and systematic observation of therapeutic group to collect data. The data analysis was based on assumptions of Critical and Reflective Content Analysis. The conformity of group therapeutic approaches in Psycho-social Attention Centers presents itself as a possibility to implement a promoting strategy of autonomy and transformation, through the innovative exchange that the group phenomena can provide its components, making the improvisation of new relationships possible through facilitating interpersonal links and the production of relationships among the authors of the process.

Mental health; Comprehensive health care; Interpersonal relations; Psychotherapy group; Mental health services


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