Permanent Education in Health: innovative experiences in mental health in Primary Health Care

Abstract

The articulation process of the Psychosocial Care Network is daily challenge linked to comprehensive health care and stigmas about mental disorders, and it´s necessary to rethink strategies that intensify the articulation in an inclusive way, guaranteeing access for all the population. This article describes qualitative approach intervention research, using workshops as a method of Permanent Education in Health, presenting the community health agents as a target audience. The purpose of this study is to enable the intervention, implementation and analysis of this methodology, aiming to promote a space of exchange, collective creation and transformation of the practice in the daily production of health among professionals and users with mental disorders, thinking the strengthening of the protagonism in the Network of Psychosocial Attention, according to Psychiatric Reform. This research promoted meetings with reflective activities and inventive learning that allowed the ‘joint construction’, starting from it's problems identified in daily and building together the common solution. While building the solution, this study strengthened the relationship between the teams within those services of the Psychosocial Attention Network, encouraging these professionals to be an extension of the Psychosocial Support Center in the territory.