DEMANDAS E OFERTAS DA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA EM SAÚDE MENTAL INFANTOJUVENIL

Abstract

The objective was to understand the demands and offers of Primary Care with regard to mental health care for children and adolescents, from the perspective of workers. This is a qualitative research, made with 41 primary care (BA) health workers in a municipality in the Southeast region. As an adopted methodology semi-structured interviews were used and two focus groups, in the latter, 20 workers participated among those who were interviewed. This was followed by a lexical analysis of the Descending Hierarchical Classification type with the help of the IRAMUTEQ software, resulting in five classes. Conceptions of childhood and adolescence appeared in the reports, still marked by ideas of incompleteness and a logic of specialized care.