EVALUATION OF A BRAZILIAN PSYCHOSOCIAL ATTENTION CENTER

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate a Psychosocial Attencion Center in Porto Alegre/Brazil. A qualitative evaluation was carried through with the proposal to apprehend the dynamics of the service, the manners how the actors interact and how the sense are constructed by those people, in relation to their practice, through the Fourth Generation Evaluation Data collection was made in the period of 2006 between October and November. We use the observation and interviews with users, family and team. The data were grouped and discussed under the theme: therapeutic activities, team, plasticity, soft technology, environment, integration of the family, public policy, the network of health services and society. We hope to have contributed to the discussion with interest groups in family, team and users to the restructuring of the Psychosocial Attencion Centers.