Saúde mental na atenção básica: uma descrição das competências da equipe Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform culminated in the transformation of the care model in Mental Health, which was based on an exclusive asylum practice and now incorporates new forms of care aiming reintegration of the patient into society. In order to meet the demands of this new scenario, the construction of a network service becomes essential, in which the mental health actions are articulated to the primary care services. Thus, the professionals of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) program now include intotheir territory of care practices people with mental illness. The aimed of the present study is to describe the competences necessary for the FHS team to work on mental health care. The research method used was the integrative review of the literature, with the inclusion of 18 studies published between 2010 and 2017. From the reading and analysis of the selected works it was possible to identify a set of technical skills and a set of behavioral skills. For the purpose of the study, behavioral skills were grouped into: reception skills; bonding skills. As results it was observed that the behavioral competences are presented in greater number than the techniques.