This thesis is an exploration of the perspectives of recipients and providers of health and criminal justice services about the transitional support needs of arrestees and remand prisoners, leaving short-term custody. The study implements Constructive Grounded Theory Methods, underpinned by the Network Theory of Social Capital as the theoretical framework. Forty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted, with five participant groups; service users (arrestees/remand prisoners), family/carers, mental health staff (criminal justice liaison and mental health in-reach, community mental health teams), criminal justice staff (police/prison officers) and mental health commissioners. Participants provided unique perspectives about the health and social support, available at the transitional points of leaving short-term custody. This was supported by the construction of 11 sociograms for service users, in both arrest (n=5) and remand (n=6) situations, to highlight the availability and functionality of support networks. Transitions are particularly problematic in relation to linking offenders with appropriate community-based mental health services. The over-arching constructed grounded theory is a need for a culture shift within health policy and practice to refocus on transitional care planning to optimise continuous care pathways. Associated themes include ‘lack of practical assistance’, ‘lack of crisis support’, ‘returning to the security of prison’ and ‘poor transition planning’. Critical Time Intervention, a variant of case management has demonstrated benefits when applied to mental health and offender populations, transiting from hospital and prison settings. The programme contains all the components of service that service users, carers and staff identified as important to effectively support transitions from short-term custody to the community.

Introdução: O Projeto Terapêutico Singular (PTS) é um conjunto de condutas e propostas terapêuticas que orientam o trabalho direcionado a um sujeito singular e coletivo, que resulta da discussão coletiva interdisciplinar de profissionais de determinado serviço de saúde e se consolida em cenário histórico e de Políticas Públicas, orientado em âmbito nacional pelo Sistema Único de Saúde. Objetivos: Realizar uma Revisão Integrativa da Literatura sobre o tema PTS. Identificar, na literatura, se a construção do PTS no campo psicossocial atende a seus pressupostos teóricos e conceituais e, indicar a re-organização do trabalho com vistas à construção compartilhada do PTS junto ao usuário, no campo psicossocial, a partir das normativas e diretrizes do Ministério da Saúde, na vigência da RAPS. Método: Trata-se de um estudo de Revisão Integrativa da Literatura. Utilizou-se dois descritores de assuntos combinados: Assistência Integral à Saúde e Serviços de Saúde Mental. A palavra-chave Projeto Terapêutico Singular foi utilizada em algumas bases de dados com o intuito de refinar buscas que se mostraram muito amplas. Os dados foram coletados no Banco de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES e da USP, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e, nas bases de dados, Cinahl, Pubmed e Web of Science. O período de publicação das referências localizadas não foi limitado. Resultados: Foram selecionados 14 estudos, produzidos no período de 1997 a 2014, sendo que 13 deles realizados em âmbito nacional e, apenas um foi produzido em âmbito internacional. Para análise dos estudos, buscou-se a categorização dos achados em cinco grupos: 1) conceitos e bases teóricas do campo psicossocial e da reabilitação como cidadania; 2) estrutura, forma e o como-fazer dos projetos terapêuticos singulares; 3) vantagens do emprego do projeto terapêutico singular nas práticas assistenciais; 4) os desafios, obstáculos e dificuldades nos quais o PTS esbarra; 5) as propostas para superação dos desafios relacionados ao PTS. Conclusões: A presente revisão integrativa valeu-se da combinação do uso de descritores de assunto e palavra-chave, o que permitiu a recuperação de maior número de estudos, pertinentes ao objetivo estabelecido. O PTS é ferramenta potente de cuidado, porém enfrenta muitos desafios para seu desenvolvimento o que pode restringir suas potencialidades. Foi recomendado que estudos futuros proponham um registro norteador de ações, que corresponda aos saberes teóricos e conceituais do campo psicossocial e da reabilitação como cidadania, de modo a contribuir com a elaboração do PTS. Esse norteador de ações deve apontar para a possibilidade de guiar a construção coletiva do PTS para atingir de forma efetiva a reabilitação psicossocial, a qualidade de vida, a dignidade, o poder de troca de mercadorias, de apoio social e familiar e de direito de pertencimento, ou seja, do verdadeiro direito à cidadania e a vida. / Introduction: The Singular Therapeutic Project (known as PTS in Brazil) is an arrangement of therapeuct actions that is due to guide the work process directed towards a singular person or a collective subjects, that results in an interdisciplinary collective discussion of employees of health services and has its bases in a historical setting and Public Policies, oriented at the national level by the National Health System. Objective: Identify if the development of the PTS in the psychosocial field meets its theoretical and conceptual assumptions, as well as propose the rearrangement of the work processes, aiming the shared development of the PTS with the user of the health services, in the psychosocial field, through the regulations and guidelines of the Ministry of Health, in the presence of the governement program Attention Networks to Psychosocial Health (known as RAPS). Method: Its an Integrative Literature Review. Were combined in this review two index-terms: Comprehensive Health Care and Mental Health Services. The keyword Therapeutic Project was used in same databases in order to refine searches that were very broad. Data were collected at the Bank of Theses and Dissertations of CAPES and USP, Virtual Health Library and, in the databases, Cinahl, Pubmed and Web of Science. The period of publication of localized references was not limited. Results: A total of fourteen (14) studies, producted from 1997 to 2014. Thirteen (13) of them were performed at the national level and only one of them was produced internationally. For analysis of the studies, we sought to categorize the findings into five groups: 1) concepts and theoretical bases of the psychosocial field and the rehabilitation as citizenship; 2) structure, shape and the how-to of the PTS; 3) advantages of using the PTS in the health care practices; 4) the challenges, obstacles and difficulties that the PTS faces; 5) proposals for overcoming the challenges related to PTS. Conclusion: This Integrative Review drew on the combination of the index-terms and keyword, which allowed the recovery of the greatest number of relevant studies to the proposed goal. The PTS is a powerful tool care, but it faces many challenges to its development which may restrict its potentialities. It is recommended that future studies could propose a registration that guides actions, which corresponds to the theoretical and conceptual knowledge of the psychosocial field and the rehabilitation as citizenship, in order to contribute to the development of the PTS. This guide for the actions should point the possibility of guiding the collective construction of the PTS to achieve effectively the psychosocial rehabilitation, the quality of life, the dignity, the social exchanges, the labor, the social and family support and the right of belonging, in other words, the true right to citizenship and life.

Introdução: O Projeto Terapêutico Singular (PTS) é um conjunto de condutas e propostas terapêuticas que orientam o trabalho direcionado a um sujeito singular e coletivo, que resulta da discussão coletiva interdisciplinar de profissionais de determinado serviço de saúde e se consolida em cenário histórico e de Políticas Públicas, orientado em âmbito nacional pelo Sistema Único de Saúde. Objetivos: Realizar uma Revisão Integrativa da Literatura sobre o tema PTS. Identificar, na literatura, se a construção do PTS no campo psicossocial atende a seus pressupostos teóricos e conceituais e, indicar a re-organização do trabalho com vistas à construção compartilhada do PTS junto ao usuário, no campo psicossocial, a partir das normativas e diretrizes do Ministério da Saúde, na vigência da RAPS. Método: Trata-se de um estudo de Revisão Integrativa da Literatura. Utilizou-se dois descritores de assuntos combinados: Assistência Integral à Saúde e Serviços de Saúde Mental. A palavra-chave Projeto Terapêutico Singular foi utilizada em algumas bases de dados com o intuito de refinar buscas que se mostraram muito amplas. Os dados foram coletados no Banco de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES e da USP, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e, nas bases de dados, Cinahl, Pubmed e Web of Science. O período de publicação das referências localizadas não foi limitado. Resultados: Foram selecionados 14 estudos, produzidos no período de 1997 a 2014, sendo que 13 deles realizados em âmbito nacional e, apenas um foi produzido em âmbito internacional. Para análise dos estudos, buscou-se a categorização dos achados em cinco grupos: 1) conceitos e bases teóricas do campo psicossocial e da reabilitação como cidadania; 2) estrutura, forma e o como-fazer dos projetos terapêuticos singulares; 3) vantagens do emprego do projeto terapêutico singular nas práticas assistenciais; 4) os desafios, obstáculos e dificuldades nos quais o PTS esbarra; 5) as propostas para superação dos desafios relacionados ao PTS. Conclusões: A presente revisão integrativa valeu-se da combinação do uso de descritores de assunto e palavra-chave, o que permitiu a recuperação de maior número de estudos, pertinentes ao objetivo estabelecido. O PTS é ferramenta potente de cuidado, porém enfrenta muitos desafios para seu desenvolvimento o que pode restringir suas potencialidades. Foi recomendado que estudos futuros proponham um registro norteador de ações, que corresponda aos saberes teóricos e conceituais do campo psicossocial e da reabilitação como cidadania, de modo a contribuir com a elaboração do PTS. Esse norteador de ações deve apontar para a possibilidade de guiar a construção coletiva do PTS para atingir de forma efetiva a reabilitação psicossocial, a qualidade de vida, a dignidade, o poder de troca de mercadorias, de apoio social e familiar e de direito de pertencimento, ou seja, do verdadeiro direito à cidadania e a vida. / Introduction: The Singular Therapeutic Project (known as PTS in Brazil) is an arrangement of therapeuct actions that is due to guide the work process directed towards a singular person or a collective subjects, that results in an interdisciplinary collective discussion of employees of health services and has its bases in a historical setting and Public Policies, oriented at the national level by the National Health System. Objective: Identify if the development of the PTS in the psychosocial field meets its theoretical and conceptual assumptions, as well as propose the rearrangement of the work processes, aiming the shared development of the PTS with the user of the health services, in the psychosocial field, through the regulations and guidelines of the Ministry of Health, in the presence of the governement program Attention Networks to Psychosocial Health (known as RAPS). Method: Its an Integrative Literature Review. Were combined in this review two index-terms: Comprehensive Health Care and Mental Health Services. The keyword Therapeutic Project was used in same databases in order to refine searches that were very broad. Data were collected at the Bank of Theses and Dissertations of CAPES and USP, Virtual Health Library and, in the databases, Cinahl, Pubmed and Web of Science. The period of publication of localized references was not limited. Results: A total of fourteen (14) studies, producted from 1997 to 2014. Thirteen (13) of them were performed at the national level and only one of them was produced internationally. For analysis of the studies, we sought to categorize the findings into five groups: 1) concepts and theoretical bases of the psychosocial field and the rehabilitation as citizenship; 2) structure, shape and the how-to of the PTS; 3) advantages of using the PTS in the health care practices; 4) the challenges, obstacles and difficulties that the PTS faces; 5) proposals for overcoming the challenges related to PTS. Conclusion: This Integrative Review drew on the combination of the index-terms and keyword, which allowed the recovery of the greatest number of relevant studies to the proposed goal. The PTS is a powerful tool care, but it faces many challenges to its development which may restrict its potentialities. It is recommended that future studies could propose a registration that guides actions, which corresponds to the theoretical and conceptual knowledge of the psychosocial field and the rehabilitation as citizenship, in order to contribute to the development of the PTS. This guide for the actions should point the possibility of guiding the collective construction of the PTS to achieve effectively the psychosocial rehabilitation, the quality of life, the dignity, the social exchanges, the labor, the social and family support and the right of belonging, in other words, the true right to citizenship and life.

Transitional care is an important process for professionals to consider, particularly as recent studies have shown how a mental health difficulty in adolescence will persist into adulthood. This indicates that a number of those seen in Child and Adolescent mental health services are likely to make the transition into Adult services. For professionals from both services, barriers can arise when supporting young people across service boundaries and recent studies have stated that the current practice of transitional care in mental health is deemed to be problematic. However at the time of conducting this study, there was a paucity of literature, therefore the aim of the study was to add to the existing knowledge. The study followed a Social Constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz, 2014) approach to explore the experience of stakeholders of the transition process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals, young people and parents. There were a total of eight interviews which were transcribed and analysed. The findings present the core category as Facing the transition, with three sub- categories: Changing status, Manoeuvring the boundaries and Reflections on the process. The tentative theory explains how facing the transition involves stakeholders adjusting to the changing status of the service user. This category triggers the service transition but also describes how societal perceptions about adulthood influence the expectations placed on young people. Manoeuvring the boundaries describes and explains service transition, identifying a range of barriers and strategies to overcome these. One of the most significant barriers was identified as cultural differences between the two services. The third category describes how stakeholders make sense of their experiences, and how these are managed within the therapeutic relationship.

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Despite its importance, mental health provisions are often limited. In 2015, Indonesia had only 773 psychiatrists for 250 million residents. This shortage of specialist mental health professionals is shared by most Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and is reflected in the Treatment Gaps in this region indicating the very small proportion of people who receive adequate mental health care for their needs. While the median worldwide Treatment Gap for psychosis is 32.2% (Kohn et al., 2004), in Indonesia it is more than 90%. Experts suggested integrating mental health care into primary care, to help bridge this gap (Mendenhall et al., 2014). The systematic introduction of the World Health Organization Mental Health Gap Action Programme into primary care clinics across Indonesia and the presence of a 15-year-old co-location of Clinical Psychologists in Yogyakarta province's primary care clinics presented an opportunity to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of both frameworks. Methods This research ("the trial") set out to develop an approach, and then implement it, to compare the adapted WHO mhGAP framework with the existing specialist framework within primary mental health services in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, through a pragmatic, two-arm cluster randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. This design enabled an examination of patients derived from whole populations in a 'real world' setting. The trial involved two phases: a pilot study in June 2016 with the objectives to refine data collection procedures and to serve as a practice run for clinicians involved in the trial; as well as a substantive trial beginning in December 2016. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) was established as a 'fairly accurate' screening tool using a Receiver Operating Curve study. Using the GHQ scoring method of 0-0-1-1, a threshold of 1/2 was identified for use in clinical setting, i.e. the context of the trial. The primary outcome was the health and social functioning of participants as measured by the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS) and secondary outcomes were disability as measured by WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0), quality of life as measured by European Quality of Life Scale (EQ‐5D-3L), and cost of intervention evaluated from a health services perspective, which aimed to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of both frameworks at six months. Results During the recruitment period, 4944 adult primary care patients attended 27 participating primary care centres. Following screening (n=1484) and in-depth psychiatric interviews (n=394), 174 WHO mhGAP arm and 151 Specialist arm participants received a formal diagnosis and were recruited into the trial. The number of required participants per treatment arm, to provide statistical power of 0.80 and statistical bilateral significance value of 0.05 was estimated to be 96. A total of 153 participants of the WHO mhGAP arm and 141 of the Specialist arm were followed-up at six months, representing 90.8% of all participants diagnosed. At follow-up, 82% (n=126) participants of the WHO mhGAP arm indicated they had attended at least one treatment session during the trial, significantly more than in the Specialist Arm (69%; n=97), 2 = 7.364, p=0.007. The WHO mhGAP arm was proven to be statistically not inferior to the Specialist arm in reducing symptoms of social and physical impairment, reducing disability, and improving health-related quality of life at six months. Cost-effectiveness analyses show that the Specialist arm was dominant for a unit of improvement in patient outcomes at six months. While the framework is more expensive for the Health System, participants in the Specialist arm were found to have larger improvements. Conclusion Given that both frameworks yielded positive patient outcomes, there is no immediate need to increase the absolute number of specialist mental health professionals in community psychiatry (i.e. replicate the specialist framework outside Yogyakarta). As most psychologists and psychiatrists in Indonesia reside in large cities, the current systematic roll-out of the adapted WHO mhGAP framework might address the need to strengthen non-stigmatising mental health care within community contexts, reflecting the preferences of primary care patients. In districts or provinces which could afford the additional cost, however, the Specialist framework was shown to be better at improving patient outcomes than the adapted WHO mhGAP framework. Existing resources for specialist care can be arranged in a hub-and-spoke (step-up care) model where higher-level interventions are provided for those with greater needs. The proposed model would free-up resources for advanced clinical training of the specialist workforce in key areas of need while keeping specialist services accessible. Trial Registration This trial has been registered with clinicaltrials.gov since 25 February 2016, NCT02700490. Ehical Standards Full ethics approval from the University of Cambridge, UK was received on 15 December 2015 (PRE.2015.108) and from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia on 14 April 2016 (1237/SD/PL.03.07/IV/2016). A condition of ethics approval from the University of Cambridge is that the investigator is covered by indemnity insurance and that participants are insured for the period of their participation. This was provided by the University of Cambridge Trial Insurance Office (609/M/C/1510). Ethics approval from all the clusters was not required as each cluster (Puskesmas) is a local GP surgery which does not have its own ethics committee. Instead, approval to conduct research at the province of Yogyakarta including all five districts: Kota Yogyakarta, Sleman, Gunung Kidul, Kulon Progo, Bantul Districts was obtained from the Provincial Government Office (070/REG/V/625/5/2016) following ethics approvals. Written consent to participate was obtained from clinicians taking part as well as all patient-participants.

Submitted by Rosivalda Pereira (mrs.pereira@ufma.br) on 2017-07-05T19:54:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 KarennBorges.pdf: 702612 bytes, checksum: 41a46f828aba12caca8d1b3a03c9d3a1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-05T19:54:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KarennBorges.pdf: 702612 bytes, checksum: 41a46f828aba12caca8d1b3a03c9d3a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-08 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão (FAPEMA) / In the field of mental health care has been reoriented towards the hospital - centred model to the extra-hospital care model from the Psychiatric Reform, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Movement and the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. In this context, the CAPS assumed the role of service substitutive Authorising care network in mental health. However, in many of these units, this role has not yet been incorporated. Faced with the need to better understand the dynamics of work that leads to mental health care, originated this research. The objectives of this study were to understand the dynamics of mental health care; understand the links with the network of attention to the construction of mental health care and meet the design of care in mental health professionals interviewed. The methodological approach was descriptive and analytical qualitative research conducted with professionals working in mental health in three CAPS-I and a CAPS-II Health Region Pedreiras - MA. Data collection involved semi - structured interviews and focus groups. There was lack of resources, inadequate professional assistance associated with the work process fragmentation and not joint Network and difficult access to services. Conclusion: There was an outpatient, fragmented care emphasis, formed by multidisciplinary teams with little multidisciplinary, and a service that does not articulate the Care Network Health There is great personal investment of most professionals, however, little understanding of the purpose CAPS and how this fits into the network. / No campo da saúde mental, o cuidado tem sido reorientado no sentido do modelo hospitalocêntrico ao modelo de atenção extra-hospitalar a partir da Reforma Psiquiátrica, Movimento de Reabilitação Psicossocial e a desinstitucionalização do doente mental. Nesse contexto, os CAPS assumiram o papel de serviço substitutivo ordenadores da rede de cuidado em saúde mental. Os objetivos desta pesquisa foram compreender a dinâmica do cuidado em saúde mental; compreender as articulações com a rede de atenção para a construção do cuidado em saúde mental e conhecer a concepção do cuidado em saúde mental dos profissionais entrevistados. O recurso metodológico foi a pesquisa descritiva e analítica com abordagem qualitativa realizada com profissionais trabalhadores em saúde mental em três CAPS-I e um CAPS-II da Região de Saúde Pedreiras/MA. A coleta de dados foi por meio de questionário estruturado e grupo focal. Foi realizada Análise de Conteúdo na modalidade Análise Temática. Resultados: observou-se escassez de recursos, inadequação da assistência profissional, associada à fragmentação do processo de trabalho, a não articulação em Rede e dificuldade de acesso aos serviços. Conclusão: Observou-se uma ênfase assistencial ambulatorial, fragmentada, formada por equipes multiprofissionais com pouca multidisciplinaridade, e um serviço que não se articula à Rede de Atenção à Saúde. Há grande investimento pessoal da maioria dos profissionais, entretanto, pouca compreensão sobre a finalidade do CAPS e como este se insere na Rede. Sugerimos reorganização do processo de trabalho e mais inclusão do usuário em todo o processo.

ARAÚJO, Sicília Maria Moreira de. Sentidos de arte como prática de cuidado na perspectiva de pessoas com transtorno mental. 2011. 145f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2011. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-22T17:00:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-SMMARAUJO.pdf: 1693695 bytes, checksum: 5cf52f016fcfdbdbec02923a5931b1c0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-22T17:17:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-SMMARAUJO.pdf: 1693695 bytes, checksum: 5cf52f016fcfdbdbec02923a5931b1c0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-22T17:17:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-SMMARAUJO.pdf: 1693695 bytes, checksum: 5cf52f016fcfdbdbec02923a5931b1c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / The art has been adopted as strategy and resource to health promotion that meets the practice of deinstitutionalization. On the other hand, it appears that the use of such resource sometimes disparage people with mental disorders. This study has as overall objective understand the meaning of art in mental health care given by people with mental disorder, accompanied by the Bom Jardim’s Communitarian Mental Health Care Movement (MSMCBJ) in Fortaleza, Ceara, acting jointly with the Municipality of Fortaleza through the Center for Psychosocial Care (CAPS) in the monitoring of this study’s participants. Such experience raises questions that guide this research because this Movement aims beyond the traditional pinelians practices still strongly conveyed to health treatment which uses essentially the medication as treatment. In this matter, art arises as a tool and way of health promoting, among other features. To understand how this strategy has reverberated in the health of users of health services from their own points of view, it was used as theoretical support Rotelli, Merhy, Amarante, Duarte Junior, Dimenstein and Boff with regard to the issue of health care practices. In relation to art, this survey was based on the theoretical support ideas from Paz, Ostrower and Vygotsky. In the historical-cultural perspective, Vygotsky, Pino, Lane, Molon, Aguiar and Namura were addressed. Methodologically, it was utilized qualitative research and cultural-historical approach in a case study of the Bom Jardim’s Communitarian Health Care Movement (MSMCBJ). The frame time of the survey was developed two focal groups. The first occurred in August 2009 and the second in October 2009. The two focal groups were conducted with the participation of users of the health service of MSMCB. The first focal group was conducted with nine people. This group’s theme was mental health care; and the second group, with six people, used the theme of art as care. In both moments only one of them was accompanying a research’s participant. Content analysis was used as a method of data analysis in this study. The results pointed to a user’s perspective of valuation of a care practice that asked certain specific key to building relationships between professionals and patients which were reported as the exercise of freedom of expression, practice autonomy, exercise of valuing oneself and interacting with other individuals, with the consequent development of the participants as social subjects. The use of art in mental health care showed the significance of this fundamental part of mental health care. The characteristics of the context of working with art appeared as facilitators of healthy relationships between users and professionals. / A arte tem sido utilizada como estratégia e recurso de promoção à saúde que vai ao encontro das práticas desinstitucionalizadas. Por outro lado, verifica-se que a utilização deste recurso, algumas vezes, desmerece as pessoas com transtorno mental. Este estudo tem como objetivo geral compreender os sentidos de arte no cuidado em saúde mental, atribuídos por pessoas com transtornos mentais acompanhadas pelo Movimento de Saúde Mental Comunitária do Bom Jardim (MSMCBJ), em Fortaleza, Ceará, que desenvolve atividades na área de saúde mental e tem uma cogestão com a Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza para administração do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS) no acompanhamento dos participantes da pesquisa. Tal experiência suscita questionamentos que norteiam esta investigação pois este Movimento foge de práticas tradicionais pinelianas, ainda fortemente veiculadas ao tratamento em saúde que utilizam eminentemente a medicação como tratamento. Neste contexto, a arte surge como instrumento e via de promoção em saúde como, dentre outros tipos de recursos. Para compreender como esta estratégia tem reverberado na saúde dos usuários a partir de seus próprios pontos de vista, foi utilizado como suporte teórico Rotelli, Merhy, Amarante, Duarte Junior, Dimenstein e Boff no que diz respeito à temática da saúde e práticas de cuidado. Em relação à arte, esta pesquisa teve como base teórica as ideias de Paz, Ostrower e Vygotsky. Na perspectiva histórico-cultural, Vygotsky, Pino, Lane, Molon, Aguiar e Namura foram abordados. Metodologicamente, foram utilizadas a pesquisa qualitativa e a abordagem histórico-cultural, em um estudo de caso do Movimento de Saúde Mental Comunitária do Bom Jardim (MSMCBJ). No decorrer da pesquisa foram criados dois grupos focais com usuários dos serviços de saúde do MSMCBJ. O primeiro ocorreu em agosto e o segundo em outubro de 2009. O primeiro grupo foi constituído por nove pessoas e teve como temática o cuidado em saúde mental; e o segundo, com seis pessoas, utilizou a temática da arte como cuidado. Em ambos os momentos uma das pessoas era acompanhante de um dos participantes da pesquisa. A análise de conteúdo foi utilizada como método examinatório dos dados deste estudo. Os resultados apontaram para uma perspectiva dos usuários de valorização de uma prática de cuidado cuja forma de acolhimento pedia determinadas especificidades para a construção das relações entre profissionais e pacientes as quais foram relatadas como: exercício de liberdade de expressão, prática de autonomia, exercício de valorização de si mesmo e interação com outros sujeitos, com o consequente desenvolvimento dos participantes como sujeitos sociais. A utilização da arte no cuidado em saúde mental mostrou fundamental importância na significação deste cuidado em saúde mental. As características do contexto de trabalho com arte aparecem como facilitadoras de relações saudáveis entre os usuários e profissionais.

The main goal of the Strategy for the Reform of Psychiatric Care, published in 2013 by the Ministry of Health of the Czech republic, was to improve the quality of life of people suffering from mental illness. One of the results of this strategy was the emergence of new mental health centres. These mental health centres are meant to provide individualized social and health care to people with mental illness in order to prevent or minimize their hospitalization. The service is ensured by multidisciplinary teams which include professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, and social workers. Case management is supposed to be a dominant form of the service provided. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the historical context of the case management and its recent exploitation in the mental health centres in the Czech republic. The empirical part focuses on a particular multidisciplinary team applying the case management method. Through qualitative research, it aims to identify the different parts of the case management and the constraints and obstacles of its application. The analysis of the data collected brings the definition of the key problem areas the team is facing. The final part of the thesis provides recommendations for further development and proposes steps...