Beyond the prescription of work: activity of the psychologist in the mental service
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https://doi.org/10.14571/brajets.v18.n4.1325-1337Keywords:
CAPSi, occupational health, Activity ClinicAbstract
This article aims to understand the work of psychologists, their duties and prescriptions, impediments and development, in a Child Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSi) in a city in the interior of the state of Paraíba. This is field research, with a qualitative approach, using the Double Instruction technique, based on the theoretical framework of the Activity Clinic. The results show that psychologists face a work organization with contingencies and variabilities that include everything from user demands to technical and material demands, having to invent, create ways to deal with and solve them in practice. Faced with the constraints of the activity, professionals constantly seek to do the job well. The six participants in the study have temporary ties to the service, which makes work relationships precarious and compromises the financial stability of workers, bringing feelings such as insecurity, demotivation, hopelessness and frustration. It is concluded that the feeling of frustration in the power to act, given the complexity of the service, makes the psychologists who participated in this study doubt whether they want to remain in this activity for a long time; however, they do not diminish their commitment to the activity, seeking emancipatory management for themselves and for users.
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