Reabilitação profissional e saúde mental: O caminho de volta do trabalhador reabilitado

Abstract

Mental and behavioral disorders (MBD) have been appointed these days as the third main cause of work removal. Part of removed workers are sent from INSS to the Professional Rehabilitation (PR) program, wich is called Reabilita, managed by this autarchy, wich, using its own methodology, aims to provide to the disabled beneficiaries (parcial or totally) the indicated means to re-entry in work Market. This study had as objective to analyze the work return experiences of rehabilitated workers who were removed due to MBD. The theoretical contribution has been solidified in the legislation that protects the professional rehabilitation actions at INSS, with the conception of health inspired in canguilhemian epistemology and in Dejours perspective. About the methods, it is a qualitative research and it had the participation of four rehabilitated workers with MBD from a city of Paraíba State. For the collect of data, it was used a sociodemografic questionary and a semistructured interview script. For data analysis the adopted perspective was the thematic content analysis. The results showed that the experiences of the workers are permeated of uncertainties about the PR unfoldings and low expectations with regard its resolution, wich means that they do not assign their work activity to PR, and the disarticulation between the company and INSS showed itself as a particular relevance aspect. The assignmented meanings to work were, mostly, related to subsistence. The pathogenic suffering experiences were sinalized in the interviews in the forms of a lack of recognition and a lack of cooperation, while the lack of the disease was showed as predominant in the assigned meanings to health by the participants. In the universe of PR, the mental health is still at the margin in the routing mechanisms to work re-entry. Considering it, it is essential that intervention measures be created, in Reabilita methodology, that contemplate the particularities of each worker with MBD.