Grupo terapêutico projetos de vida: contribuições no cotidiano de mulheres portadoras de transtornos mentais

Abstract

The question that pervaded this thesis was to examine to what extent the therapeutic groups Life Projects, offered to women in psychological distress, give support to their social (re) integration, particularly with regard to the working lives. The theoretical framework adopted to the contextualization of this thematic covered the determinations of the Ministry of Health regarding the psychosocial perspective of care to users of CAPS and the Hannah Arendt theoretical elaborations on human action in the context of active life. This study aimed to understand how users of mental disorder CAPS in Recife-PE experience the therapeutic groups Life Project and how such experiences impacting their daily lives. The project has as specific objectives: to describe the work realized in the group; contextualize the social-family and occupational environment experienced by the women participating users of research; describe the everyday practical experience of users from the experiences in this group and how it impacted on their daily lives. This is a qualitative research, whose narratives were made through open interview, sociodemographic questionnaire and consultation documents (records and group record book). For understanding the interviews, it was used the Wilhelm Dilthey interpretivism, seeking to understand the meanings given to these therapeutic groups in their occupational lives. In the process of unveiling, the obtained reports covered behavioral and emotional aspects, especially to: better preparation and awareness of the social-family conviviality; improvements in the personal level of welfare and feelings of acceptance, appreciation and facilitation of comfort and emotional security in interpersonal living. There were also reports that the experiences contributed to the return to professional working lives and for the supply of the rescue of rehabilitation and social reintegration. The narratives also show that most interventional procedures performed in these groups is aimed at stimulating and encouraging other aspects of life, excluding the working lives, especially to face the stigma of mental illness and the self-confidence for the social reintegration. The reports on the therapeutic approaches mention a reasonable range of technical resources for the achievement of what is proposed: thematic discussions on health and mental illness; reflections on behavior; therapeutic riding and arts application. The manifested desires turn to intending of the recovery of activities and acquisition of new projects, which reflects the change in women's social role in contemporary society. Above all, the narratives presented corroborate the importance of caring for people in psychological distress and reaffirm the Hannah Arendt assumption on active life, namely, human action becomes meaningless if it is not directed to any embodiment.