Um espaço para estar: a ambiência no CAPS como espaço produtor de cuidado e de liberdade

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis in Occupational Therapy aims to report and reflect on the experience of an intern at a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS), focusing on the potential of the “ambiência” as a space that produces care and freedom. The methodology adopted is an experience report, grounded in the framework of Psychosocial Care and the National Humanization Policy, based on a supervised internship that took place at a CAPS II between October 2024 and February 2025. The work analyzes the intern's own trajectory of deconstructing the "mental asylums," initially focused on protocols, and details three central intervention scenes: the challenge of sustaining the listening encounter; the transition to meaningful action, which promoted authorship and protagonism for the user; and the management of freedom in an activity within the community, culminating in mutual and spontaneous care. It is concluded that the “ambiência” is a practice that demands an active professional stance from the therapist to manage freedom, not as an absence of technique, but as the main therapeutic tool. Freedom reveals itself as the condition for the production of care, allowing users to transcend passivity and assert themselves as subjects of their own existence.