Work and Mental Health: an Existing Relationship in the Setting of a CAPS

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the limits and possibilities that strategies of work and income generation have regarding the (re)integration and (re)socialization of people in a condition of psychological distress. Understanding the perception of users, professionals and involving the role of the state as a provider and regulator of social policies, it analyzes how the category "work" is presented to the field of mental health, as expressed by a Psychosocial Care Center in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This is a qualitative research based on a semi-structured interview with a guiding script. The data analysis performed was guided by the dialectical historical materialism method. For the daily lives of users, work is seen as important, and through strategies such as workshops of income generation, which allow for the integration of services and are based on the transformation of users in subjects of rights, it aids them in overcoming the logic of the market, seeking to rebuild the human sense in social relations.