Practice of psychologist in Primary Health Care – SUS: Connections with the clinical in territory

Abstract

This study investigates the possibilities and challenges of clinical practice of psychologists in the daily life of the Family Health Teams (EqSF), from the interdisciplinary work and health promotion in two communities in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. To this end, in the context of the Family Health Strategy (FHS), it analyzes the psychologist’s relationship with this strategy, charting the effects of their inclusion in Primary Health Care (AB), emphasizing its operations in NASF (Support Center for Health) and identifying their points of impoundment and their points of invention. This research also has the theoretical framework and the schizo as the mapping methodology, perceiving reality and subjectivity as composed of a multiplicity of lines that intertwine. The methodological procedures are soaking in the field and the semi-structured interview. In the cartographic perspective, we interviewed 5 members EqSF, 3 managers and 1 patient. In this context, we investigated the heterogeneous elements that were connected to the subjective processes; focusing on clinical practice in the interdisciplinary relationship in the AB. We concluded that the complexity of the SUS and its expansion point to challenges in the psychology insertion in the AB articulated to NASF and the need of contribution to enhance its performance in the ethical-political plan.

Keywords: Primary Health Care, clinical practice, interdisciplinarity.