Saberes e fazeres cotidianos na promoção de saúde mental entre e com mulheres

Abstract

This final course project (TCC) is part of a larger Scientific and Technological project and focuses on mental health and the intersectionalities of gender, class, and race, intending to study the promotion of mental health among and with women in peripheral areas through everyday knowledge and practices. Goals: This research aimed to identify, understand, and analyze with a group of women the activities they perform in their daily lives to promote care and mental health for themselves and other women. Methodology: This was a qualitative, participatory study conducted with a group of seven women who are members of a community collective and residents of a peripheral region of a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Data was collected through four meetings. Data analysis was carried out in a procedural manner, together with the women, so that each meeting could be aligned with the previous one. All syntheses were constructed and validated collectively, as they constituted the new knowledge produced by the participants with the support of the responsible researchers. Results: The results that were explored in depth and presented in this final project point to the importance of denaturalizing care by women, revealing the intersections that traverse it, the possibilities of access or lack thereof, the problematization surrounding care practices and their analysis, indicating that the act of caring for women is a revolutionary act, often not performed even to ensure one's own life. It is considered that the study provided important insights for thinking about women's health within the SUS, providing clues for the construction of participatory and popular care technologies. Finally, it is indicated that the work contributed to the fields of Mental Health and Occupational Therapy, Popular Education in Health, Psychosocial Care, and other areas that work with women living in vulnerable regions.