ANDRADE, M. T. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7266335563583145; ANDRADE, Mayara Thaís Marques.
Abstract:
The Psychiatric Reform consists in one permanent process of construction,
reflections and transformations that occurs at the same time in different settings.
There were many experiences of the Psychiatric Reform that happened in several
countries. Some of them, however, were remarkable for its innovation and impact, to
the extent of being recognized until today and still influencing the contemporary
experiences. The proposed changes go beyond the dimension of assistance and go
through the political, social and cultural dimensions as well. In Brazil, the
transformations in the Mental Health Care model were contemporary to the raised
discussions by the Sanitary Reform in the 70s, that proposed the transformations of
the national public health. From the hospital model to the substitute’s services, it
occurred great transformations in the care for people with mental disorder. The
CAPS network becomes gradually a reference, including strategic value to the
Psychiatric Reform. Promotion of the intersectorality, of interdisciplinarity,
deinstitutionalization, promotion of welcoming and coexistence places in groups and
social inclusion are some of the principles of the Psychiatric Reform and they stand
as fundamental and guiding elements of the National Mental Health Policy. The
Psychiatric Reform movement, which brought important changes to the psychosocial
attention in Brazil, also reached the municipality of Campina Grande/PB. Thereby,
this research aimed to analyze how the principles of the Psychiatric Reform have
been effective in Campina Grande and to identify the main changes occurred in the
Mental Health Care model in the municipality. It granted a bibliographic study with a
qualitative approach. From the data that was obtained, we identified that the Mental
Health Care system scenario from the municipality presented, in the last three
decades, intense modification in the assistance model and in the destination of the
financial resources, standing out the main changes as being the reduction of beds,
the installation of a network of substitute models and the approximation of the family
to the treatment. Despite the advances, in the current political scenario, the
emergence of new challenges that points out to a backward movement is more
evident.