MAGUEREZ’S ARCH IN IN-SERVICE TEACHING OF THE FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY: AN EXPERIENCE TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

Introduction: Mental Disorders have a high worldwide prevalence, generating morbidity,  sequelae and mortality. In the quest to train differentiated health professionals, the  Multiprofessional Residency Program in Primary Care/Family Health is included in the new  national training policy, in support of the Family Health Strategy (ESF). Linked to this is the need to improve community mental health. Objectives: The objective of this study was to  demonstrate the experience of the active methodology Arco de Maguerez in the exercise of  preceptorship in the Residency in Family Health, in conducting improvements in the line of  community mental care. Methodology: The study was developed as a result of an intervention  research, through preceptorship of the Residency Program of the Federal University of Piauí  (UFPI), in a Health Unit of the FHS in the city of Parnaíba-PI, in the years 2022 and 2023. The  work used the problematizing methodology of the Arch of Maguerez, composed of five stages:  Observation of Reality, Key Points, Theorization, Solution Hypotheses and Application to  Reality. Results and Discussion: The application of the Arc as a teaching and learning method  in the Residence, allowed those involved to observe the worrisome situations in mental health  care for FHS users, to theorize about them, as well as to raise hypotheses for solutions and  execute them, through in-service training and the creation of an educational technology to  monitor the mental disorders of users enrolled in the FHS territory. Maguerez's Arch was a  powerful teaching tool, and executing its stages required planning and interconnection between  theory and reflective practice, making the executors protagonists in the dissolution of the  problem situation in service. Conclusion: This study had as its starting point the reality  experienced, transforming it. It is believed that, in addition to presenting an adequate  configuration for the mental health problem identified in the ESF, it promoted the residents'  action-reflection-action, developing essential skills for the professional performance required  by the health services.