Abstract

AMARAL, Raquel Aires do  and  RIETH, Carmen Esther. Secrecy and integrality in mental health care: challenges to the performance of psychologists in the SUS. Aletheia [online]. 2015, n.47-48, pp. 64-78. ISSN 1413-0394.

The Psychiatric reform proposed several changes in the caring of mental health and the professionals that work in this field, are challenged to promote this kind of differentiated care. The objective of this study was to identify the perception of psychologists that work in the Psycosocial Care Center (CAPS), from a city located in the suburb of Porto Alegre (State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), about the relation between confidentiality and integrity in the daily operation in mental health. This work is about a quality, descripted and exploratory research that analysed the answers of 10 psychologists. Semistructured interviews were realized, that later were analyzed taking on bases assumptions of the Thematic Analysis ( Minayo, 2010). The results demonstrate that psychologists consider a challenge to ally comprehensive care with guaranteed confidentiality, since there is the need for commitment and collective efforts in the protection of the rights of CAPS users. It is considered essential that further research take the issue of confidentiality in mental health care in the public health network , since there is little scientific literature on this subject .

Keywords : Confidentiality; Comprehensive health care; Mental health.

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