Produção de flores como terapia aos usuários do CAPS – Sumé – PB.

Abstract

Occupational Therapy is constituted as a field of knowledge and assistance that makes use of various human activities, such as an innovative proposal mental health, expanding the possibilities of care to the rescue of the citizenship rights of people with a mental disorder. Among the therapeutic alternatives, the activities that fall within the patients in contact with nature emerge as the most eficentes. The study aims to present the proposal for flower production as a therapeutic resource accessible to patients with mental disorders as an alternative to the social rehabilitation and income generation of users CAPS I EstaçãoNovosRumos de Sumé - PB. Data collection occurred through observations and interviews with professionals and users of CAPS. The results point to the satisfaction of service users and indicate that the flower production activity is an alternative to improve the quality of emotional life as well as being an opportunity to generate employment and income. Health professionals wave as positive flower production activity and agree that the therapy has promoted motivation in users and have encouraged the socialization and the strengthening of these skills.