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The Improvement of Mental Health Competences and Skills on a Brazilian Federal University
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Background
The extension project “UNIRIO is madness: the improvement of mental health competences and skills.” work since 2015 with “Ponto de Cultura Loucura Suburbana” on the promotion of mental health and culture style in Brazil. The project work on the development of psychosocial rehabilitation for psychiatric patients, their families and the community.
Aims
Participate on the production and execution on the artistic/therapeutic workshop that demystify the social stigmatizing vision about psychiatric patients.
Methods
The activities developed are: administrative actions; institutional strengthening for social inclusion initiative through work; and the Carnival Block organization.
Results
This study work on constituting a social inclusion initiative through workshop that generate employment, e.g.: sale material production, financial management, material replacement. Although we do all the preparative to the Carnival Block–“Loucura Suburbana”.
Conclusion
The relationship with the psychiatric patients shows that social inclusion through carnival workshop practice is the primary means for the identity of people suffering from mental disorders and contribute to reduce community social stigma.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- e-poster walk: Classification of mental disorders and cultural psychiatry
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S230 - S231
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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