Mental health and phonoaudiology: an interdisciplinary experience in a school-clinic

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200832.2.16

Abstract

Currently Mental Health assistance is marked by heterogeneity in treatment choices according to each institution or professional
attitude. In Brazil these services were helped by the accomplishments of the Psychiatric Reform movement. However, not all
services were able to adhere to these conquests. To think about a clinic that can dialogue with the Reform, listening subjects must be
a priority. In this sense, from a demand of the school-clinic of the course of Phonoaudiology of the University Center São Camilo, we
began an interdisciplinary work in Mental Health, privileging this experience in the training of students as therapists. Besides examining
the construction of the professional role, we choose interdisciplinarity as our starting point for developing this work. Based on these
assumptions, the interdisciplinary team does not rely on the idea of knowledge complementation but rather in a clinical construction
that recognizes the limits of each discourse, creating thus a possible integration of them. This work promoted an enrichment of the
clinic, promoting results that more contribute to growth. Families more involved and engaged in the treatment of their children, and
children leaving a condition of impaired people to reappear as subjects not only subjected by language or the other, but rather using
and constructing their own language.