Articulating the academy with community intervention in mental health: the experience from a socialoccupational therapy

Abstract

This document systematizes the experience developed by the faculty of the Schoolof Occupational Therapy, students and mental health teams Talcahuano Health Service, in which are installed care Occupational Therapists to develop teaching duties as part of a Framework agreement between the two institutions. From a social constructionist epistemology, the foundations of Occupational Therapy Social occur at the same time, a methodology, based on an instrument for social intervention, called Situational diagnosis is described. In this case applied to the field of mental health, since the Occupational Therapy (OT) Social. The experience gives a complex insight into the challenges that arise in the exercise of Social Occupational Therapy, rescuing this ethical-political perspective and its realization, considering the various actors and interests involved in the constructionand configuration of the elements problems that subjects intervention teams and students must face. It concludes with some major accomplishments and goals achieved with this proposal, noting the possibility of finding spaces for social transformation, when the eyes of the actors adequately articulated.