Trajetórias terapêuticas e as redes sociais e afetivas das crianças que frequentam o Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infantojuvenil

Abstract

The following dissertation aims to profound the knowledge on therapeutic pathways and social and affective networks of children that attend to the Center for Psychosocial Child and Adolescent Care (CAPSi). The therapeutic pathways constitute from a living organization, established through relationships articulated by people that compose the network. With this qualitative research, the main goal was to analyze the therapeutic pathways of children that attend to the Center for Psychosocial Child and Adolescent Care. The study developed at a service for psychosocial care in the city of São Lourenço do Sul, which is reference to five cities in the mental care assistance to children. Five children and their families participated in this research. For data collection, chart analysis, recorded information in the field diary, narrative interviews, and the five-field map were used as methodological strategy to interviewing the children. The Ethics Committee from the Nursing School approved the study under the number 1.485.272. In the analysis, the therapeutic pathways, life history, and social and affective networks from each child were presented. The (re)building of therapeutic pathways and the knowledge on social and affective networks of the children that attend to a mental health care service is fundamental to guide the practices of care, fundament the necessities and existent demands through their own narrative. As fragilities in the therapeutic pathways, and in the social and affective networks, the early referral from the school, the extended permanence in the service, the pathologization -medicalization, and father’s absence were found. As potentialities, the bonding built during the therapeutic pathways demonstrated in the maps and the family as main source of support were highlighted. It is possible to conclude that the effective participation of children in the construction of a care that attend to their singularities, necessarily, needs to be articulated to the social and affective networks of them, which constitute as a challenge to the different actors and life scenarios.