
handle: 11336/3644
Including peers to the mental health workforce has been part of a larger debate regarding specificity and incumbencies of peers’ work, as well as their relationship with other workers. While some members of the workforce are proposing to train peers to have them help in different settings and interventions, others see them as unfair and underprepared competitors trying to replace them. Based on this debate, and from a Collective Health perspective on the concept of “care”, this paper supports the idea that, since they put “care” as central to anything done by the mental health workforce, peers could be crucial to practices in Mental Health. An experience that took place in a Day Hospital in Buenos Aires City, conversed within a group dedicated to reflect on peers’ support, is analyzed in order to unveil the relationship between peers and professionals, as well as peers’ specificity. It is withstand that one of the main contributions of including peers is to help professionals think more about the relational dimension of their work and about the way they treat, call and refer to patients.
La inclusión de pares al trabajo en Salud Mental ha sido terreno de discusión, en términos de la delimitación de las incumbencias de su tarea, así como de su relación con los equipos de profesionales. Algunos consideran la necesidad de capacitar a los pares en herramientas de intervención, y otros ven peligro en ello, en la medida en que dicha práctica podría tener la pretensión de reemplazar ciertas tareas ejercidas por profesionales. Con base en tal debate, y a partir del relato de una experiencia de inclusión de pares al trabajo en una institución de Salud Mental, se reflexiona acerca de la relación entre pares y profesionales, así como sobre la especificidad del rol del par. Se plantea que uno de los aportes de la incorporación de pares a los equipos de Salud Mental es el de ayudar a los profesionales a reflexionar sobre la dimensión relacional de su tarea, y sobre sus formas de tratar y pensar acerca de los pacientes.
Fil: Ardila Gómez, Sara Elena. Universidad Nacional de Lanus. Departamento de Salud Comunitaria; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Abadi, Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Proyecto Suma. Area de Talleres y Rehabilitación; Argentina
Fil: Agrest, Martín. Proyecto Suma. Asistencia y Rehabilitación en Salud Mental; Argentina
Fil: Cáceres, Carmen. Proyecto Suma. Area de Talleres y Rehabilitación; Argentina
Apoyo Social, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5, Atención al Paciente, Salud Mental
Apoyo Social, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5, Atención al Paciente, Salud Mental
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