Clinical listening, Mental Health Professionals and Speech-Language Pathology: experience in the Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSij).

PURPOSE: The speech therapy practice in mental health is questioned by the challenge of producing shared care strategies to, above all, expand the conditions and the communicational repertoire, the discursive and social circulation of people with mental suffering. Objective of this study was to identify the perception of clinical listening in professionals of Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSij), specifying the role of speech therapy in the care and listening of patientes.

METHODS

This is a participatory and dialogical research. A discussion group was used to collect data.

RESULTS

were grouped in the following categories: listening conception; listening and working process; listening effects; speech therapy and clinical listening. These professionals think of clinical listening as a central device for mental health care. The clinical listening favors reflection on the bio psychic dynamics of healthcare. It was observed contributions of speech therapy in intra and interinstitutional scopes, in the clinical-therapeutic work of the health professionals, patients and relatives. The speech therapist's skills and knowledge about organic aspects of child development in the opinion of professionals enhance clinical listening.

CONCLUSION

It was concluded that without teamwork, care in CAPSij would not happen in a qualified way under the public health policies: Psychosocial Care Network (PSCN) and Unified Health System (SUS) frameworks. The clinical listening is a condition of possibility of the care offered by the professionals.