Assistência à saúde mental de estudantes universitários: possibilidades da terapia ocupacional
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2021-11-30Autor
Santos, Ervelley Moreira Cardoso dos
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Youth can be a period of greater socioemotional vulnerability due to changes in occupational
roles and performances performed in the different contexts of circulation of these subjects
and the search for autonomy and independence that occurs in response to the social
expectations of a particular culture and historical time (ANDRADE, 2010). In this sense,
entering university can trigger a series of conflicts for young people who are often faced with
a very different reality in terms of routines, activities, personal relationships, and physical
distance from the family, which can interfere in the way these individuals face and solve the
conflicts arising from this context that, in turn, has been considered as a potential producer of
psychological suffering. Is worth noting that the university began to present an important
social role, with the educational policy, in the 1988 constitution, which sought to ensure the
right to education for all (ALBUQUERQUE, 2017; IMPERATORI, 2017; CHAVES and
SILVEIRA, 2016). In this direction, in view of the institution's accountability towards the
entrant, as well as the complexity involved in the students' occupation and their relationship
with the university, the literature has pointed out the need for the development of actions of
promotion and strategic care directed to the physical and mental health of students
(ALBUQUERQUE, 2017). Among the professionals who can be present in the development
of such strategies, articulating networks, so that the co-responsibility of the subject in the
community where the institution is located, as well as actions to promote their health, is the
occupational therapist. Considering the notes in the mental health literature that have
signaled the importance of planning and implementing public policies for mental health care
of college students, as well as the scarcity of research that focuses on the practice of
occupational therapy in this scenario, the present study had as its initial objective to identify,
together with occupational therapists who work or have worked in mental health care of
college students, how they perceive the possibilities of occupational therapy in this context.
Thus, the research was approved by the Committee for Ethics in Research on Human Beings
of UFSCar and six occupational therapists with previous or current experience in mental
health care of college students, identified from the snowball method, participated. Data were
produced by means of semi-structured interviews to be presented to the participants through
video call platforms. The interviews were transcribed in full and analyzed using the thematic
content analysis technique. The research results were organized based on the characterization
of the participants and the categorization of three major themes, raised from the data analysis,
which were presented by: the participants' encounter with the field, occupational therapy in
the field, which corresponds to their practices and the field of attention to college students,
where they expose their perceptions about the profile of students assisted and what they
envision in this service. The study pointed out that the participants recognize the field as
innovative in their practices, indicating their ability to contextualize the subject at the
university as a differential to promote both intersectoral actions of care to students and the
monitoring of students through the use of collective and individual activities, among which
the Integrative and Complementary Health Practices (IPCPs) have shown to be one of the
main resources adopted. The participants also presented their perceptions about the service
and the possibilities of occupational therapy in these student care spaces, which corroborates
the student assistance policy that is concerned with the permanence of university students.
Thus, it is observed that the present study presents elements that can be taken into
consideration in the formulation of new study questions and also in the development of more
effective planning and action strategies directed at the population of college students that
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recognize occupational therapy as a possibility of composition and creation of new mental
health care practices that strengthen the permanence of students in this period of their lives.
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