Interdisciplinarity on the care of a mentally disordered person

Abstract

Introduction

Brazilian's humanization policy offers the extended clinic as acting tool in health services, which advocates the use of soft technologies to provide care to its clientele.

Aim

Discuss the interdisciplinary mental health residents approach to the care of the person with mental disorder.

Methods

Experience report, accomplished by experiences of mental health's multidisciplinary residency members, which is in a lato sensu postgraduate linked to the study center of collective health, of the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil. Structured on two axes: face meetings; and singling out actions in the daily work.

Results

From the understanding of the extended clinic as a light technology interdisciplinary approach, in which different professional specialties share knowledge and co-responsible themselves for the mentally disordered patients’ care, Residents have used it as a articulation tool and insertion in the different care scenarios. When developing activities, the residents use guidelines indicated by the extended clinic in order to leverage the work done by the person with mental disorders. Among which stands out: the host, building links, qualified listening, the sensitization for the care co-responsibility, construction of the unique therapeutic project, intersectional actions and sharing care with other services that make up the health system.

Conclusion

Experiences like these made it possible to perceive the applicability of the National Policy of Humanization through its main tool, which is the extended clinic that contributes to the work process of a health team, promoting interdisciplinarity and raising the prospective to the look of transdisciplinary.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.