Repercussions of community therapy in the daily of your participants

Abstract

The Brazilian psychiatric reform has been appearing as a model of health of community base, looking for the assistance of the people's demand in emotional suffering. In Brazil, the Community Therapy (CT) has been used as technology of care of prevention suffering, favoring the invigoration and/or construction of entails, as well as of social nets. Starting from the project of extension of the Department of Nursing of Public Health and Psychiatry of the Federal University of Paraíba, this study aimed to know the repercussions of the Community Therapy in the daily of the people emerged, the Ambulante community's residents, of Mangabeira/ João Pessoa/ Paraíba/ Brazil. The method of thematic oral history was used, making use of the interview technique for the collection of data, with nine participants of the group of the Community Therapy. Analyzing the empiric material, we identified that the reasons that took the collaborators to participate in the group of CT were: the invitation done by the team of Family Health Program and the people's need in verbalizing the anguishes and sufferings of the daily. The changes happened in the daily of the collaborators came back for a larger understanding from itself and of the other and for the capacity of personal and social transformation, as well as in the invigoration of the entails: family, friendship and spiritual. We also stands out the construction of the entails of leisure, social and community, starting from the encounters of CT. This was evidenced by the conformation of the net of social support, starting from the participants' mobilization in search of a better life quality for itself and for the community. We considered that the CT consolidates as a care technology, that it can be made possible by the teams of health of the family for the promotion of the health in a general way, prevention of the psychic suffering, invigoration of entails with the community, construction of support nets and social inclusion.