Salud Mental y Trabajo Social:

la R.I.Sa.M como instancia-potencia para pensarnos

Abstract

This publication emerges from the experience gained at the Interdisciplinary Residency of Mental Health (RISaM). It is aimed at making a contribution to professionals in the field of social work and to those disciplines, professions and/or mental health workers in general. It was born from the work processes carried out there. It focuses on the place social work has within work teams in the field of mental health. It attempts to explore, rethink and reconsider by putting into play the point of view and concepts of some authors about how the knowledge linked to our academic training articulates with that from other participating disciplines (the fields of psychology, for example) according to the design of health strategies. Their differences and possibilities of integration. This publication is also aimed at contributing to our own care as workers and to the analysis of institutional conditions within the current context and according to The National Mental Health Act No. 26.657. The intervention is thought in a restorative perspective of the rights of those people who suffer from subjective ailments and it attempts to open possible lines of action, more integrating ones, in comparison with fragmentation and hyper-specialisation.