The rationale of any national screening programme is to recognize the benefits for public health, to test a predominantly healthy population including low risk pregnant women, and to detect risk factors for morbidity in order to provide timely care interventions. The South African health care system faces many challenges that undoubtedly impact on maternal health, resulting in poor quality of care and indirectly causing maternal deaths. The government has embarked on a number of initiatives that address women’s psychosocial wellbeing during pregnancy, for example free maternity care, legalizing abortion, expanding on provider-initiated HIV counseling and testing for antenatal patients. These initiatives imply a re-look at antenatal care screening, in order to identify wider determinants of health that may have an impact on a woman’s psychosocial wellbeing. This includes amongst others, poor socio-economic conditions such as poverty, lack of social support, general health inequalities, domestic violence and a history of either personal or familial mental illness, all of which have the capacity to influence a pregnant woman’s decision to utilize health care services. The intention of this study was therefore to establish the extent of psychosocial risk assessment for pregnant women during antenatal care, with a focus on the psychosocial support.Ethical clearance was obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocol no. M081013). A mixed-method approach was applied through combining quantitative and qualitative research techniques, methods and approaches to address psychosocial risk assessment and psychosocial support by midwives during antenatal care. An explanatory sequential design was used. The methodology was aimed at accommodating the diverse population involved in the study, the nature of data being sought and the number of investigations conducted. A fully mixed research approach was implemented interactively through all the stages of the study. The study took place in six phases to meet the purpose of this research. Phase 1 entailed quantitative data collection and analysis; phase 2 qualitative data collection and analysis; phase 3 report writing; phase 4 formulation of guidelines; phase 5 pilot test; phase 6 integration of results and findings, and writing of final report. The philosophical basis of the study is based on the researcher’s values and belief of holism and comprehensive assessment. Much as values are part of the study, the researcher strove to keep values as separate from the research as possible, to minimise researcher bias. The feminist standpoint theory provided the guiding epistemological framework to address the qualitative research questions for this study as the issues regarding reproduction are of central feminist concern. Pragmatism, which is considered a best philosophical basis for mixed-methods as it values both objective and subjective knowledge, was applied in this study. The methodological goal of the study was guided by two paradigms, “constructivist”, which is the basis of qualitative research and “contemporary empiricist” paradigms, which is the basis of empirical analytic research as the study used a mixed-method approach. Although the empiricist lens is the most appropriate for a sequential explanatory design, both paradigms are acknowledged in this study. A quantitative-qualitative data collection and analysis sequence was followed. The sequential explanatory approach was maintained through, for example, collecting and analyzing quantitative data first, followed by obtaining information from midwives through a questionnaire and focus group discussions, and from pregnant women through a questionnaire and focus group discussions, using the same populations. Non-probability purposive sampling was done for all data sources. All data were collected by the researcher.Qualitative data analysis consisted of the identification of themes and relationships through constant comparison of data, which enabled the researcher to establish group and across-group saturation in focus group discussions. Quantitative data was collected through the review of midwifery education regulations, documents and records. Midwives’ questionnaires with a response rate of 46%, questionnaires administered to pregnant women and the review of antenatal cards with a 94% response rate. The data sets provided multiple data sources, a characteristic of the mixed methods approach. Data were analyzed using the Stata Release 10 statistical software package. Data analysis included summary statistics i.e. mean and standard deviation for continuous variables, frequencies and percentages for discrete variables, and Chronbach’s alpha for internal consistency. Confidence intervals of 95% were used to report on discrete variables. Quantitative and qualitative data were initially analyzed separately to develop an understanding of the two data bases before merging the findings and results. The process provided separate and independent results that could be compared for the purposes of corroboration, complementarity and discussion. The results were compared for specific content areas, for example major themes. A tool for psychosocial risk assessment and care was developed in response to the findings from the midwives’ focus group discussions at the three clinics, the expert interviews findings, the cross-sectional survey results from midwives, the self-administered questionnaires for pregnant women, and review of the antenatal cards carried by women during antenatal care. The tool was piloted in the three clinics where data were initially obtained. The general results of the study suggest that depressive and anxiety disorders are common in pregnancy and may be associated with negative experiences during antenatal care. Adequate screening of women and recognition of emotional responses with appropriate interventions are essential to promote a woman’s healthy adjustment to pregnancy. Attempts to minimise high levels of uncertainty, anxiety and depression should be incorporated within routine antenatal care.Midwives should strive to empower women physically and psychosocially in order for women to be able to overcome any barriers to safe motherhood, with emphasis on providing information, in order for them to make informed choices.The findings from the pilot study confirmed that pregnant women experience psychosocial problems which can be identified by the use of a screening tool, howeverthere remains a need to test the tool on a larger sample which might elicit more factors that could hinder or help its implementation. The implication of the findings appears to be that midwives are willing to incorporate the psychosocial assessment tool into routine antenatal care. The findings might be used to advocate for the incorporation of the tool into routine antenatal care. While the use of this antenatal psychosocial pilot tool may increase the midwives’ awareness of psychosocial risks and form a basis for further studies, a bigger sample size and statistical power are required to provide evidence that routine antenatal psychosocial assessment would also lead to improved outcomes for mother and/or child. The final stage of the study, based on research findings, led to the development of guidelines and recommendations for psychosocial care at the midwifery regulation level, midwifery education, clinical practice level and research. Key concepts: Antenatal care; Midwife; Psychosocial risk assessment; Psychosocial support.

As concepções sobre a loucura, bem como as formas de tratá-la, vêm sofrendo consideráveis transformações de acordo com a cultura e as épocas. A partir da década de 1990, foi oficializada a Reforma Psiquiátrica no Brasil, dando início à política de desinstitucionalização e reinserção social. Todavia, ainda são verificados alguns desafios, entre estes, as reinternações no setor de internação breve em um hospital psiquiátrico, o que traz sérias consequências, como a propensão a uma nova modalidade de institucionalização. Este estudo teve como objetivos: analisar o fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica no contexto da Atenção Psicossocial, a partir da visão dos pacientes reinternantes em um hospital psiquiátrico público; compreender o processo de reinternação psiquiátrica ao qual o paciente está sujeito; investigar o cenário assistencial e sociofamiliar e suas interferências no fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica; explorar, junto aos pacientes, a existência de perspectivas que vislumbrem saídas às repetidas internações psiquiátricas. Inicialmente, com vistas a sintetizar e analisar a produção científica nacional e internacional acerca do fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica, no contexto da desinstitucionalização, foi realizada uma revisão integrativa da literatura publicada em fontes de pesquisa de impacto que detectou deficiência de estudos que investigassem variáveis psicossociais envolvidas na problemática, bem como ausência da perspectiva do paciente sobre o assunto. O presente estudo fundamentou-se na Atenção Psicossocial, enquanto corpo teórico-prático e ético, e orientou-se pela reabilitação psicossocial como categoria analítica. A Atenção Psicossocial emerge no atual contexto de transição paradigmática, a partir da crise do paradigma da racionalidade científica, e baseia-se no pensamento da complexidade. Para a coleta dos dados, foi aplicado um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada a 22 pacientes reinternantes no hospital investigado, bem como coletadas informações sociodemográficas constantes dos seus prontuários. Os dados colhidos foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo, por meio da qual foram construídas as seguintes categorias temáticas: Funções e disfunções do tratamento hospitalar: os sentidos da internação psiquiátrica; Tratamento ambulatorial: repetir ou inovar?; A medicação e seus impasses: benefícios e limites percebidos; Família laços e embaraços: uma convivência possível?; A dimensão social extramuros: construindo lugares possíveis; O momento da alta: o que está por vir daqui para frente. A partir da análise dos dados, constatou-se uma combinação de carências: ausência de apoio familiar desejável, inexistência de trabalho ou de ocupação agradável, dificuldade na apropriação do espaço de moradia, falta de redes de apoio ou de laços sociais, insuficiência dos serviços extra-hospitalares e a ineficiência da assistência que resultam na não adesão ao tratamento, incluindo o medicamentoso. Este cenário favorece o isolamento social e contribui para que, nos momentos de crise, não havendo possibilidade de acolhida do sofrimento no serviço, o hospital seja o recurso mais utilizado pelo paciente. Assim, a coexistência de modelos antagônicos, hospitalar e comunitário, produz um novo fenômeno, que, no entanto, reproduz o velho: a reinternação psiquiátrica que leva à reedição da institucionalização. Nessa direção, a reinternação psiquiátrica, como fenômeno atual, desvela o processo ainda inconcluso e não consolidado da Reforma Psiquiátrica, bem como confirma que a efetiva desinstitucionalização só ocorre com a devida substituição do modelo hospitalar pelo modelo de Atenção Psicossocial. / Conceptions about madness, as well as how to treat it, have been undergoing considerable changes according to culture and period. From the 1990s, the Psychiatric Reform was official in Brazil, starting the policy of deinstitutionalization and social reintegration. However, a few challenges are still observed, including the readmissions in the sector of brief hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital, which has serious consequences, such as the propensity to a new form of institutionalization. This study aimed to: analyze the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission in the context of Psychosocial Care, from the perspective of readmitted patients in a public psychiatric hospital; understand the process of psychiatric readmission to which the patient is likely to be submitted; investigate the assistance, social and familial scenario and their interference in the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission; explore, together with the patients, the existence of perspectives that envisage other possibilities to repeated psychiatric hospitalizations. Initially, in order to synthesize and analyze the national and international scientific production about the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission in the context of deinstitutionalization, an integrative review of the literature was conducted in research sources of impact. It was found a deficiency of studies that investigate psychosocial variables involved in the problem, as well as an absence of the patient\'s perspective on the subject. The present study was based on the Psychosocial Care, as a theoretical, practical and ethical reference, and was also guided by psychosocial rehabilitation as an analytical category. The Psychosocial Care emerges in the current context of paradigmatic transition, from the crisis of the scientific rationality´s paradigm, and it is based on the thought of complexity. To collect data, a semi-structured interview was applied to 22 readmitted patients in the investigated hospital, as well as the collection of their social and demographic information contained in their hospital records. Data were submitted to content analysis, through which the following thematic categories we developed: Functions and dysfunctions of hospital treatment: the meanings of psychiatric hospitalization; Outpatient treatment: repeat or innovate?; Medication and its impasses: perceived benefits and limits; Family ties and embarrassments: a possible coexistence?; The extramural social dimension: building possible places; The time of discharge: what is to come hereafter. From the data analysis, it was found a combination of deficiencies: lack of desirable family support, lack of pleasant work or occupation, difficulties in the appropriation of the living space, lack of support networks or social ties, lack of outpatient care services and assistance´s inefficiency, that result in noncompliance with treatment, including medication treatment. This scenario favors social isolation and contributes to that, in times of crisis, when there is no possibility of acceptance of suffering in the service, the hospital becomes the most used tool by the patient. Thus, the coexistence of opposing models, hospital and community, produces a new phenomenon, which, however, reproduces the old one: the psychiatric readmission that leads to the repetition of the institutionalization. Accordingly, the psychiatric readmission, as current phenomenon, reveals the unfinished and unbound process of the Psychiatric Reform, and confirms that the effective deinstitutionalization occurs only with proper replacement of the hospital model for the Psychosocial Care model.

As concepções sobre a loucura, bem como as formas de tratá-la, vêm sofrendo consideráveis transformações de acordo com a cultura e as épocas. A partir da década de 1990, foi oficializada a Reforma Psiquiátrica no Brasil, dando início à política de desinstitucionalização e reinserção social. Todavia, ainda são verificados alguns desafios, entre estes, as reinternações no setor de internação breve em um hospital psiquiátrico, o que traz sérias consequências, como a propensão a uma nova modalidade de institucionalização. Este estudo teve como objetivos: analisar o fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica no contexto da Atenção Psicossocial, a partir da visão dos pacientes reinternantes em um hospital psiquiátrico público; compreender o processo de reinternação psiquiátrica ao qual o paciente está sujeito; investigar o cenário assistencial e sociofamiliar e suas interferências no fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica; explorar, junto aos pacientes, a existência de perspectivas que vislumbrem saídas às repetidas internações psiquiátricas. Inicialmente, com vistas a sintetizar e analisar a produção científica nacional e internacional acerca do fenômeno da reinternação psiquiátrica, no contexto da desinstitucionalização, foi realizada uma revisão integrativa da literatura publicada em fontes de pesquisa de impacto que detectou deficiência de estudos que investigassem variáveis psicossociais envolvidas na problemática, bem como ausência da perspectiva do paciente sobre o assunto. O presente estudo fundamentou-se na Atenção Psicossocial, enquanto corpo teórico-prático e ético, e orientou-se pela reabilitação psicossocial como categoria analítica. A Atenção Psicossocial emerge no atual contexto de transição paradigmática, a partir da crise do paradigma da racionalidade científica, e baseia-se no pensamento da complexidade. Para a coleta dos dados, foi aplicado um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada a 22 pacientes reinternantes no hospital investigado, bem como coletadas informações sociodemográficas constantes dos seus prontuários. Os dados colhidos foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo, por meio da qual foram construídas as seguintes categorias temáticas: Funções e disfunções do tratamento hospitalar: os sentidos da internação psiquiátrica; Tratamento ambulatorial: repetir ou inovar?; A medicação e seus impasses: benefícios e limites percebidos; Família laços e embaraços: uma convivência possível?; A dimensão social extramuros: construindo lugares possíveis; O momento da alta: o que está por vir daqui para frente. A partir da análise dos dados, constatou-se uma combinação de carências: ausência de apoio familiar desejável, inexistência de trabalho ou de ocupação agradável, dificuldade na apropriação do espaço de moradia, falta de redes de apoio ou de laços sociais, insuficiência dos serviços extra-hospitalares e a ineficiência da assistência que resultam na não adesão ao tratamento, incluindo o medicamentoso. Este cenário favorece o isolamento social e contribui para que, nos momentos de crise, não havendo possibilidade de acolhida do sofrimento no serviço, o hospital seja o recurso mais utilizado pelo paciente. Assim, a coexistência de modelos antagônicos, hospitalar e comunitário, produz um novo fenômeno, que, no entanto, reproduz o velho: a reinternação psiquiátrica que leva à reedição da institucionalização. Nessa direção, a reinternação psiquiátrica, como fenômeno atual, desvela o processo ainda inconcluso e não consolidado da Reforma Psiquiátrica, bem como confirma que a efetiva desinstitucionalização só ocorre com a devida substituição do modelo hospitalar pelo modelo de Atenção Psicossocial. / Conceptions about madness, as well as how to treat it, have been undergoing considerable changes according to culture and period. From the 1990s, the Psychiatric Reform was official in Brazil, starting the policy of deinstitutionalization and social reintegration. However, a few challenges are still observed, including the readmissions in the sector of brief hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital, which has serious consequences, such as the propensity to a new form of institutionalization. This study aimed to: analyze the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission in the context of Psychosocial Care, from the perspective of readmitted patients in a public psychiatric hospital; understand the process of psychiatric readmission to which the patient is likely to be submitted; investigate the assistance, social and familial scenario and their interference in the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission; explore, together with the patients, the existence of perspectives that envisage other possibilities to repeated psychiatric hospitalizations. Initially, in order to synthesize and analyze the national and international scientific production about the phenomenon of psychiatric readmission in the context of deinstitutionalization, an integrative review of the literature was conducted in research sources of impact. It was found a deficiency of studies that investigate psychosocial variables involved in the problem, as well as an absence of the patient\'s perspective on the subject. The present study was based on the Psychosocial Care, as a theoretical, practical and ethical reference, and was also guided by psychosocial rehabilitation as an analytical category. The Psychosocial Care emerges in the current context of paradigmatic transition, from the crisis of the scientific rationality´s paradigm, and it is based on the thought of complexity. To collect data, a semi-structured interview was applied to 22 readmitted patients in the investigated hospital, as well as the collection of their social and demographic information contained in their hospital records. Data were submitted to content analysis, through which the following thematic categories we developed: Functions and dysfunctions of hospital treatment: the meanings of psychiatric hospitalization; Outpatient treatment: repeat or innovate?; Medication and its impasses: perceived benefits and limits; Family ties and embarrassments: a possible coexistence?; The extramural social dimension: building possible places; The time of discharge: what is to come hereafter. From the data analysis, it was found a combination of deficiencies: lack of desirable family support, lack of pleasant work or occupation, difficulties in the appropriation of the living space, lack of support networks or social ties, lack of outpatient care services and assistance´s inefficiency, that result in noncompliance with treatment, including medication treatment. This scenario favors social isolation and contributes to that, in times of crisis, when there is no possibility of acceptance of suffering in the service, the hospital becomes the most used tool by the patient. Thus, the coexistence of opposing models, hospital and community, produces a new phenomenon, which, however, reproduces the old one: the psychiatric readmission that leads to the repetition of the institutionalization. Accordingly, the psychiatric readmission, as current phenomenon, reveals the unfinished and unbound process of the Psychiatric Reform, and confirms that the effective deinstitutionalization occurs only with proper replacement of the hospital model for the Psychosocial Care model.

Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is defined as “fear, worry, or concern relating to the possibility that cancer will come back or progress (Lebel et al., 2016, p. 3266). FCR is the most frequently reported concern identified among cancer survivors (Baker, Denniston, Smith, & West, 2005; Lebel, Rosberger, Edgar, & Devins, 2007). Although approximately 50% of cancer survivors experience moderate-to-high levels of FCR (Simard et al., 2013), few psychosocial interventions exist that directly target this construct. The overarching study objectives were: (a) to adapt a manualized, 6-week, cognitive-existential group therapy intervention for FCR to an individual format; (b) to pilot-test the feasibility, acceptability, and satisfaction of this individual intervention on n=3 participants; and (c) to further pilot-test the efficacy of the individual intervention on n=25 participants, via a randomized controlled trial (RCT). In study 1, n=3 cancer survivors (1 male, 2 females) completed the one-on-one therapy intervention for the psychological treatment of FCR. Sessions were 60-90 minutes long, and included cognitive restructuring exercises, behavioural experiments, relaxation techniques, existential processing of the here-and-now, and finding meaning in life post-diagnosis. Participants completed questionnaire packages throughout the intervention and an exit interview to determine their overall feedback on the intervention. Quantitative analyses revealed downwards trends in fear of cancer recurrence and cancer-specific distress across participants. Qualitative analyses of the exit interviews revealed that all participants found the intervention useful, and that the sessions had favourable pacing and length. In study 2, the FCR intervention was further pilot-tested via an RCT. Twenty-five female cancer survivors were randomized to an experimental group or a wait-list control group. Sessions included cognitive restructuring techniques, behavioural experiments, confronting existential distress, and relaxation exercises. Nineteen women (n=9 intervention, n=10 control) completed the 6-week therapy intervention, and completed questionnaire packages at pre-, post- and 3-month follow-up. Between-within ANOVAs revealed significant interactions in the primary outcome measure of FCR, and secondary outcome measures of cancer-specific distress and uncertainty in illness for participants in the experimental group. Repeated measures ANOVAs revealed reductions in FCR, cancer-specific distress, uncertainty in illness, reassurance-seeking, cognitive avoidance, and intolerance of uncertainty, and revealed improvements in positive reinterpretation and growth, use of emotional support and mental health (improved quality of life) for participants in the experimental group, as compared to the wait-list control group. The variables that changed either maintained or improved at follow-up. Results from this study demonstrate promising results in addressing FCR in cancer survivors via a cognitive-existential intervention. Future research should continue investigating the specific therapeutic ingredients that are most effective for the psychological treatment of FCR.

The diploma thesis deals with psychosocial risks and stress in work. The theoretical part of the work is devoted to the definition and characteristics of psychosocial risks and stress. Furthermore, the legislative entrenchment of psychosocial risks in the Czech Republic and the European Union is described. The theoretical assumptions are concluded by the definition of psychosocial risk management. The methodological part is devoted to the quantitative survey, which is focused on the psychosocial risks of bank advisers of the company. Based on the results of the questionnaire survey, appropriate recommendations are made to reduce psychosocial risks in the company.

Culture is critical to delivering effective mental health care, necessitating tailored approaches aligned with the respective cultural contexts. The rise of globalization and transcultural psychiatry highlights the importance of integrating culture comprehensively into mental health and psychosocial interventions within humanitarian contexts. Existing research underscores the significance of culture in mental health. However, a prevailing influence of Western perspectives on mental health is evident globally, leading to the widespread implementation of Euro-American viewpoints in humanitarian fieldwork. This approach negatively impacts individuals affected by crisis by sidelining culturally grounded understandings of illness. While several studies examine the impact of culture on mental health care, there is limited research on how humanitarian organizations perceive and incorporate culture in training materials. This study aims to examine how the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement conceptualizes and integrates culture within its mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) intervention. I collected data from nineteen Red Cross guidebooks to conduct a thematic analysis and extract insights into the organization’s approach. I found nine themes: understanding culture through self, culture as behaviour, culture as meanings, community-based approach, assessment, planning and implementation, training, monitoring and evaluation, and universality of mental illness. My findings indicate that the Red Cross conceptualizes culture holistically, and by doing so, they aim to produce culturally relevant care. While the Red Cross emphasizes cultural relativism in its MHPSS responses, encouraging cultural competency, it also tends towards universalism when discussing mental health, reflecting the nuanced nature of MHPSS interventions. This tension highlights the complex relationship between these two perspectives in creating the Movement’s MHPSS responses and speaks to broader challenges in delivering mental health and psychosocial care in humanitarian fields. Further avenues for research lie in exploring strategies to reconcile relativist and universalist frameworks, aiming to produce seamless MHPSSs. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / Effective mental health care respects and incorporates the cultural beliefs and practices of the individuals receiving it. However, according to the literature, there is a pattern amongst international aid agencies of applying Westernized mental health ideas globally. In this study, I investigate how the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement understands and incorporates local culture in its mental health and psychosocial supports (MHPSS). The study reveals that the Movement recognizes culture holistically. The Movement closely works with communities, aiming to ensure that the support matches local ways of understanding well-being and distress. However, the Movement tends to apply a more universal understanding regarding specific mental disorders. This discrepancy highlights issues within the humanitarian field at large. My findings suggest that while the Red Cross does well to integrate cultural understandings of psychosocial distress, there is a need for better collaboration between universal and local perspectives in MHPSS.

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Syftet med denna studie var att fördjupa förståelsen för distansledarskapets utmaningar med att förebygga och hantera psykosocial ohälsa vid Trafikverket. För att uppnå syftet har ett kvalitativt metodval med semistrukturerade intervjuer använts som datainsamlingsmetod där intervjuer skett med både chefer och medarbetare. Studien bidrar till att lyfta fram viktiga faktorer som kan vara avgörande för att chefer ska kunna upptäcka och hantera psykosocial ohälsa. Resultatet visar att relationer, kommunikation och en hög interaktionsfrekvens är avgörande för chefens förebyggande arbete gällande den psykosociala arbetsmiljön. Resultatet visar även att fysisk närvaro inte är avgörande för huruvida chefen upplevs som närvarande, istället handlar det om att chefen i sina interaktioner är psykosocialt närvarande. / The purpose of this study was to deepen the understanding of the challenges of distance leadership in preventing and managing psychosocial illness at the Swedish Transport Administration. In order to achieve the purpose, a qualitative choice of method with semistructured interviews has been used as a data collection method where interviews have been conducted with both managers and employees. The study contributes to highlighting important factors that can be crucial for managers in order to detect and manage psychosocial illness. The result shows that relationships, communication and a high frequency of interaction are crucial for the manager's preventive work regarding the psychosocial work environment. The result also shows that physical presence is not necessary for whether the manager is perceived as present, instead, it becomes important that the managers are psychosocially present in their interactions.

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-06-28T19:53:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Janine Lopes Carvalho.pdf: 1105457 bytes, checksum: 0ca104adc2e98838d0aab84d801f62dc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-28T19:53:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Janine Lopes Carvalho.pdf: 1105457 bytes, checksum: 0ca104adc2e98838d0aab84d801f62dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-30 / The late 70 was the beginning of the current movement of Brazilian psychiatric reform. In this period several criticisms of psychiatric care appeared, such as inefficiency of attention, fraud in the financing system and especially the abandonment, abuse and violence suffered by the patients in the main hospices in the country. Progressively, the asylum psychiatric model was being replaced by the model of psychosocial care, in which the Centers for Psychosocial Care (CAPS) have assumed the roles of organizers of the care network, searching forms of singular care, to be developed in the territory of people's lives. It is important the notion of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, in order to develop the work in the new mental health services, which is not just a technical necessity, it is an ethical requirement that should involve all workers and other people that are linked to the health disease process, such as the patients themselves, their families, and finally the entire community. In this context, this research aims to discuss how the psychosocial rehabilitation practice is done, in the services of the professionals of two CAPS of Manhua?u / MG micro region. Therefore, it will be adopted a qualitative research, based on the constructivist paradigm and Hermeneutics Gadamerian. The observed aspects were: poor relation between inter and intra-sectoral network and the acts of municipal administration as a barrier to work concerning the purchase of inputs and training. In regard to psychosocial rehabilitation it was observed that professionals associate the concept of psychosocial rehabilitation to the return to the labor market and it still persists in the minds of professionals the mad stigma as being incapable. / No final da d?cada de 70 deu-se o in?cio do atual movimento pela reforma psiqui?trica brasileira. Neste per?odo surgiram v?rias cr?ticas ? assist?ncia psiqui?trica, tais como: inefici?ncia da aten??o, fraude no sistema de financiamento e, principalmente, o abandono, os maus tratos e a viol?ncia a que eram submetidos os pacientes nos principais hosp?cios do pa?s. Progressivamente, o modelo psiqui?trico manicomial foi sendo substitu?do pelo modelo da aten??o psicossocial, no qual os Centros de Aten??o Psicossocial (CAPS) assumiram a posi??o de organizadores da rede assistencial, assumindo o mandato de agenciar formas de cuidado singular, a serem desenvolvidos no territ?rio de vida das pessoas. Para trabalhar nos novos servi?os de sa?de mental uma importante no??o ? de Reabilita??o Psicossocial, esta n?o ? apenas uma necessidade t?cnica, ? uma exig?ncia ?tica que deve englobar a todos os trabalhadores e demais atores do processo de sa?de doen?a, ou seja, usu?rios, suas fam?lias e, finalmente, a comunidade inteira. Inserida neste contexto, esta pesquisa tem por objetivo discutir como os profissionais de dois CAPS da microrregi?o de sa?de de Manhua?u/MG operacionalizam as pr?ticas de reabilita??o psicossocial nos respectivos servi?os. Para tanto, adotaremos a pesquisa qualitativa, baseada no paradigma construtivista e na Hermen?utica Gadameriana. Foram observados os seguintes aspectos: articula??o prec?ria entre a rede inter e intra-setorial, a administra??o municipal funciona como um entrave para o trabalho em rela??o ? compra de insumos e capacita??o. Em rela??o ? reabilita??o psicossocial observamos que os profissionais associam o conceito de reabilita??o psicossocial como retorno ao mercado de trabalho e que ainda persiste no imagin?rio dos profissionais o estigma do louco como incapaz.

This study, which is part of a research project conducted to explore the experiences of quality of life of older people living in a residential facility, focuses specifically on the psychosocial needs of these residents. Psychosocial needs refer to the innate psychological nutriments that prompt older people to take purposeful, self-directed action in an attempt to satisfy these needs and ultimately foster well-being. These may include needs for mastery, acknowledgement, social interaction and care. In this study the term “older people” refers to individuals aged 60 years and older. The group of older people who participated in this study all live in a residential facility for older people. “Residential facility” refers to premises or a building where older people are provided with accommodation and access to 24-hour care. Previous research concerning the needs of older people focused mainly on their physical care, in the context of deteriorating health. Considering that many older people are leading healthy, vigorous lifestyles, however, it is also important to explore the psychosocial needs of the more functional older people in residential facilities. Psychosocial needs were initially described by Maslow, within a hierarchical system, whereby psychosocial needs emerge only when biological needs have been satisfied. In view of the exceptions described in the literature of older people who overcome the inevitable physical strains that accompany ageing, Maslow’s bottom-up approach is seen as restrictive in its view of older people. In the present study self-determination theory (SDT) has been found to be applicable in exploring psychosocial needs, because of its holistic and adaptive view of people possessing the potential to address their needs within a social environment. SDT views people as motivated to gratify their needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness. A qualitative approach was used to describe the psychosocial needs of the older people studied. The research was conducted in a residential facility for older people in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The older participants comprised 16 residents, including 3 males and 13 females, aged 65 and older. Data-gathering was conducted by using the Mmogo-method®. This required each participant to use a lump of clay, sticks and beads to make something that represents their experiences of life in the residential facility. Prompting questions were asked and each participant was given an opportunity to describe his or her visual presentation. Group discussions allowing for confirmation or revision of perspectives of experiences followed. Data were analysed by means of secondary, thematic and visual analysis. Trustworthiness was ensured by carefully applying specific guidelines which were produced by considering different models aimed at ensuring rigour in qualitative research. These guidelines included clear and coherent writing; conceptual coherence; ensuring a trustworthy procedure through member-checking, multiple perspectives and clarification, as well as the researcher’s attentiveness to her own biases. The research was approved by the ethical committee of North-West University. The researcher applied ethical guidelines as prescribed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa while the research was conducted, and afterwards. Findings revealed four psychosocial needs, namely a need for autonomy, interpersonal interaction within a specific context, a sense of safety, and transcendental needs. The need for autonomy included freedom of personal preference, independent living and active participation. On the interpersonal level, there was a need for general relationships, in which sharing, acknowledgement and caring were present (both instrumental and emotional), as well as close family and friendship relationships. The need for safety covers both physical and organisational safety. On the transcendental level, there is a need for space and opportunities to express and address spiritual needs. These findings may be used to facilitate the development of policies and programmes which aim to address the psychosocial needs of older people in residential facilities as well as in other living arrangements. / MSc (Clinical Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015