O trabalho dos psicólogos que atendem crianças nos CAPSi - reflexões a partir da clínica da atividade

Abstract

There are many challenges for workers in the CAPSi: disarticulations between the service and the RAPS, reduction of public investments and interference of the political conjuncture in the management of services, culminating in overload for workers. In view of this, there are gaps regarding the critical evaluation of the choices made by these professionals in each situation, reflecting on how the management of the activity is constructed in the context of work in these health devices. This study aims to analyze the management and development of the work activity of psychologists who work in a Child Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSi) in a city in the interior of the state of Paraíba. We opted for a descriptive, applied, qualitative survey research, with a methodological instrument inspired by the technique of Instruction to the Lookalike (Clot, 2006), based on the theoretical framework of the Activity Clinic. The results show a deterioration of the physical space of the CAPSi, an insufficient number of professionals, the fragility of work relationships - enhanced by the trend towards outsourcing - and the absence of regular strategies for training workers for psychosocial action. The psychologists indicated salaries below the work demanded, scarcity of material and human resources, and overload due to high demand. The results also showed difficulties with the planning of activities, whether individual and/or collective, limitations for the constitution of a permanent work collective. The exercise of the professional genre was evidenced, as well as its improvement and transformation from the stylizations initiated by the professionals in their activity. It is concluded that it is necessary to rethink investments in health, the ways of hiring professionals and their work organization; Promoting the development of professionals' power to act in the activity can transform their perceptions about the health and suffering of health workers.