The process of facilitating Permanent Education in Health for mental health education in Primary Health Care

Abstract

The study analyzed the facilitation of Permanent Education in Health (EPS) for mental health education in Primary Care, as part of an intervention-research using the Institutional and Socioclinical Analysis as theoretical-methodological framework. The research identified demands of the professionals from two Family Health Strategy teams in order to give inputs to twelve EPS education meetings with each team. The facilitators provided reflections on conceptual aspects linked to mental health care and EPS, also identifying the institutional interferences and control of the in-service learning process, resulting from the overimplication of the facilitators. Even though this work is restricted to a local context, it is possible to expand its contributions regarding the analytical field to other experiences, in order to envision different researches as well as pointing out the need for the analysis of the facilitation process in different contexts.