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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
Reflections on our practices. A rapprochement to the modality of interventions in laboral programs in mental health in tne public sector of the city of Buenos Aires
Abstract
Introduction: This work has the intention of knowing the modality of intervention of the occupationaltherapist in labour programs of mental health for adults, belonging to the public sector of health.
Method: It is an exploratory investigation of qualitative type developed in the City of Buenos Aires
(Argentina) during the year 2006.
The information was obtained of documentation, and across interviews realized to the occupational
therapists who shaped the sample.
The obtained results mean a description and systematizing of the practices of the occupational therapist
in this field, and demonstrate the importance of Occupational Therapy to generate changes in the specific
forms of health care.
Conclusion: Though there was established a modality of intervention distinguished in every type of
program, according to the relation of the most frequent interventions, his aims and the goals that every
program proposes, also some similar characteristics could be identified.
Such similarities expressed across the prevalence of the interventions based on the intention of favoring the
social integration across the creation of new social spaces of inclusion and also in the way of conceiving
the problem of the mental health assuming the complexity of the human being in his multiple dimensions.
