GROUPS AS A THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: AN INTERDISCIPLINAR PERSPECTIVE IN THE PRODUCTION OF HEALTH CARE

The growing demand of users in psychological distress and / or vulnerability psychosocial who make clinical follow-up in primary care unit (UBS) led to the creation of a therapeutic group in order to address the mental health issues. The therapeutic group aims to promote health and quality of life for participants, and it is an important tool of matrix support what is proposed to qualify the professional Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the management clinical psychological and social issues of its reference customers in that it promotes, through the facilitation of meetings by professionals Health different specialties, the driving and construction interdisciplinar collective activity, with theoretical and technical contributions from diferente categories. The group allows users to collectively deal with the impressions and experiences that mobilize affective and subjectively, in the form of conversation wheel, providing exchanges of experiences that stimulate reflection and self-knowledge of the participants and thereby stimulate the expansion of social network extending between them. The meetings take place every two weeks always on the same days of the week, lasting up to two hours, in the interface in psychology with the mediation with other health knowledge production areas such as: physical education, nursing, pharmacy and medicine. From the group interventions we find it possible to develop the practical skills such as active listening, creativity and empowerment, of professionals and users, contributing to the promotion of health and quality of life for them.