Abstract

SILVEIRA, Letícia Brandieri  and  SILVEIRA, Cláudia Alexandra Bolela. Community mental health group: the view of Psychology discents. Vínculo [online]. 2022, vol.19, n.1, pp.106-119. ISSN 1806-2490.  https://doi.org/issn.19982-1492v19n1a11.

The Community Mental Health Group aims to promote the understanding of the relationship between the person and their daily reality, seeking health promotion. The present research is directed towards a community group activity conducted in the process of training Psychologists at a University in the interior of São Paulo. Therefore, the objective is to verify the importance of holding the Meetings of the Community Mental Health Group from the perspective of Psychology students. The methodology used was the descriptive-qualitative research, field research with the university students who participated in the community group meetings between March and June 2018 and 2019. The instrument for data collection it was an electronic questionnaire via Google Drive form. As it is research with humans, the project was submitted to the Ethics Committee and approved, CAAE number: 26948819.4.0000.5495. Data analysis was performed based on the participants' responses to the questionnaire, analyzed from the perspective of the three aspects that make up the Community Mental Health Group: 1. attention to reality and human experience; 2. the group as a meeting place and 3. the group process, learning and mental health. Thus, it was verified with this research the importance of the community group in the formation of psychologists as a space to work aspects related to mental health. In addition, there is yet another fundamental aspect regarding the valorization of life, where the group members begin to look at others in a humanized way, understand that in everyday events important life experiences are present and from the meetings of the community mental health group they started to recognize them.

Keywords : community group; psychology; university students; mental health.

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