MOBILE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS AND THE PSYCHOSOCIAL PARADIGM

MOBILE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS AND THE PSYCHOSOCIAL PARADIGM

ABSTRACT The objective was to know the perception and interventions of basic support teams of the mobile emergency medical service in a situation of psychic crisis. This was a qualitative and descriptive research study conducted in the state of Santa Catarina, with four professional teams of the Basic Support Units in Mobile and Emergency Service. The data were collected from April to June of 2011, through semi-structured interviews. Collective Subject Discourse was used to organize and analyze data and to discuss the Psychosocial Paradigm. From the results, three discourses emerged with the main ideas: crisis behavior disorder and psychological instability; hallucinations and aggressiveness; intervention with physical or pharmacological restraint and referral. It is concluded that the concept of crisis is linked by professionals to the positivism of psychiatry, and pre-hospital care follows protocol measures in attending the person in mental crisis, far from the principles determined by the psychosocial paradigm.

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Main Authors: Almeida,Alexsandro Barreto, Nascimento,Eliane Regina Pereira do, Rodrigues,Jeferson, Zeferino,Maria Terezinha, Souza,Ana Izabel Jatobá de, Hermida,Patrícia Madalena Vieira
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós Graduação em Enfermagem 2015
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072015000401035
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Summary:ABSTRACT The objective was to know the perception and interventions of basic support teams of the mobile emergency medical service in a situation of psychic crisis. This was a qualitative and descriptive research study conducted in the state of Santa Catarina, with four professional teams of the Basic Support Units in Mobile and Emergency Service. The data were collected from April to June of 2011, through semi-structured interviews. Collective Subject Discourse was used to organize and analyze data and to discuss the Psychosocial Paradigm. From the results, three discourses emerged with the main ideas: crisis behavior disorder and psychological instability; hallucinations and aggressiveness; intervention with physical or pharmacological restraint and referral. It is concluded that the concept of crisis is linked by professionals to the positivism of psychiatry, and pre-hospital care follows protocol measures in attending the person in mental crisis, far from the principles determined by the psychosocial paradigm.

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