Abstract

SERAFIM, Roseane Christhina da Nova Sá et al. Social representations of psychiatric reform and mental illness elaborated by brazilian college students. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2017, vol.18, n.1, pp.221-233. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/17psd180118.

It's aimed to identify the Social Representations of Nursing, Medicine and Psychology Brazilian students on the Psychiatric Reform and mental illness. This is a qualitative/quantitative study of descriptive and exploratory nature, anchored in the theoretical and methodological support of the Theory of Social Representations. The sample was composed of conventional and non-probabilistic by 150 students, with 50 students from each course. It was used for data collection a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Free Word Association Technique (FWAT). The material collected from the questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics and data seized by FWAT, through the factorial analysis of correspondence using the Tri-Deux-Mots program. Investigating how students of Nursing, Medicine and Psychology build their Social Representations about the mental illness and Psychiatric Reform allows to access a complex network of meanings attributed to political and libertarian movement of the Psychiatric Reform and mental illness today. It can be said that, in this study, students represent the madness and mental illness in a polymorphic form, in which one side the psychology students are anchored to the psychosocial model of care, as nursing and medicine to the asylum model.

Keywords : Social Representation; Madness; Mental disease; Psychiatric Reform.

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