| dc.description.abstract | This paper intends to comprehend how managers of Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) and
Mental Health Policy (PSM), from municipalities and states, understand the concept of
territory, the territorialization strategies of CAPS, and how they try to implement them in Santa
Maria, RS. The research has a qualitative exploratory approach, with field delineation and
applied nature. A semistructured interview with the managers mentioned was used to collect
the data. The results show that they understand territory in a way, both functional - a space for
the care management -, and as a space for subjectivities. However, there is a fragility in CAPS
relations to primary care and shared care. It is necessary to strengthen the networks and
systematize joint actions of services through matrix-based strategies, that need to be
perfectioned and consolidated in the city. Still, there is a search for being part of territories,
articulating with networks, providing support, and creating projects. These actions, added to an
efficient and well-established matrix-based support, can change the mental health care in the
city. Finally, new research is suggested in the city to improve the matrix-based actions and
understand how Primary Health Care develops mental health care in Santa Maria, collaborating
to the qualification of RAPS. It is also important to strengthen the fight against mental health
setbacks, underfunding of SUS, and even worse funding of mental health. | |
