Nursing performance in the therapeutic workshop in the context of a psychosocial care center

Abstract

This article aimed to report the operation of an art therapy workshop institutionalized by a nurse, and soon as the same, inserted within a Psychosocial Care Center II, can be important in the treatment of mental psychopathologies, through the execution of artisanal works. The study was conducted in a Psychosocial Care Center II, in a city around the Federal District - DF. A mixed research method was adopted, by combining quantitative and qualitative research approaches, characterized by the sequential explanatory design. The workshop rescues and encourages users to look at the world through their artistic productions and provides an exchange of experiences with other CAPS users, demonstrating their previously contained and verbalized emotions to the group, including creativity in paintings, in color choices and in the exchange of experiences. Thus, professionals working in CAPS need to broaden their knowledge interfaces to embrace these new methods that are of great value in the care of people with mental disorders, reducing medicalization and providing coping strategies.