Potencialidades e desafios da intersetorialidade: interfaces entre equipamentos especializados da Saúde Mental e da Assistência Social em Contagem-MG

Abstract

This research proposes to discuss the intersectoriality between public policies of Social Assistance and Mental Health, prioritizing the level of secondary care, or specialized care in these policies, electing to two devices that make up the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS) and Centro de Referência Especializado da Assistência Social (CREAS), from the observation of some practices and the relations established between the two devices in which the need for dialogue between the different professionals who make up its teams is indispensable. To this end, field research was carried out in CAPS-Sede and CREAS-Eldorado in Contagem/MG, which were conducted semi-structured interviews with nine professionals that works both in equipment and in the management of these policies in the municipality. It also resorted to the literature review about setting up these policies and the cartographical method proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to carry out the tracking of the effectiveness and applicability of intersectoriality in this context.