Welcoming as an emancipatory care technology in Psychosocial Care Centers

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the components that characterize the emancipatory potential of welcoming at Psychosocial Care Centers, highlighted as citizenship, critical awareness, freedom and autonomy. Method: Convergent Care Research was performed with data from interviews using a semi-structured script and research-service integration groups with four nurses, a psychologist and three social workers, held from November 2018 to July 2019. The analysis comprised four processes as per Convergent Care Research. Results: in the light of Nietzsche's theoretical construct in his classification of technologies, welcoming has full emancipatory potential in that it displays emancipatory components relating to freedom, citizenship, autonomy and critical awareness and thus favors the emancipation process, for both professionals and users. Conclusion: as a technology with full emancipatory potential, welcoming enables nurses to grasp the concept of emancipatory technology and to reflect on the knowledge and practices intrinsic to it.