Impasses na efetivação de serviços prestados nos centros de atenção psicossocial: uma revisão

Abstract

The Centros de Atenção Psicossocial-CAPS (Psychosocial Attention Centers) are alternative facilities that replaced the old well known psychiatric hospitals, that emerged form a complex process known as “psychiatric reformation”, emerging nationally by the ends of XXth century and implementing the logic of mental health care and treatment, This work was made by means of a revision of the literature concerning empirical researches on the Psychosocial Attention Centers, aiming to point out the “flaws” and “problems” of these treatment spaces as a mental health public service. Bringing forth these issues, I stress how they influence the real working and the daily routine of this institution, considering the point of view of the different agents to whom the service is intended: patients, their relatives and the professionals of the institutional board. The work draws from this to point the benefits and the dead-locks of the actual of a mental health service offer.