Muito além das brincadeiras: os recursos terapêuticos no CAPS infantil e suas repercussões na saúde da criança.

Abstract

In mental health services in Brazil, therapeutic workshops are planned as a major form of care offered in Psychosocial Care Centers juvenile. The workshops gain a prominent role in both therapeutic as the probation officer, working with individual care and group, using diversified activities to minimize more severe symptoms, and work to prevent the worsening of symptoms and socialization. Thus, this study aims at knowing the therapeutic resources used with children with mental disorders that are linked to Psychosocial Care Center Child (CAPSi) of the city of Campina Grande. This is a qualitative and descriptive study conducted in July and August of 2013, in which we used semistructured interviews concerning the influence of therapeutic workshops on mental health. The interviews were recorded with the aid of an electronic type recorder. The study was submitted to the Ethics and Research of the Federal University of Campina Grande, in obedience to the prerequisites emanated by Resolution 196/96. The data analysis followed the criteria of interpretation of the theme together grounded the theoretical as well as goals. In this way it was possible a better clarification on the thematic, by creating two categories: "A watercolor therapy": The therapeutic resources used in CAPSinho and "The way to the Rainbow": the challenges and potentials in care. In empirical material analysis, it was found that both family members, as professionals believe that workshops can exert behavioral modifications, acting directly on children rehabilitation, promoting the development in communication, learning, mobilization, expression and organization, through play; music, the storytelling, sensory-perceptual stimulus. Throughout the research, realizes the need for a complete multidisciplinary team, material resources and greater family participation in treatment and care of children in order to develop diversified activities, thus meeting all the needs of these children and adolescents, allowing its recovery and psychosocial rehabilitation.