Educational practices in harm reduction actions: positioning of professionals from alcohol and drugs psychosocial care centers (CAPS AD) in Alagoas
Educational Practices; Discursive Practices; Harm Reduction; Online Conversation Rounds.
The Alcohol and Drug Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS AD) are health devices that work with the Public Policy of Harm Reduction (DR). This public policy aims to assist drug users who do or do not aim for abstinence from alcohol or other drugs. One of the main points is the search for the autonomy of these users. Thus, the health professional acts through educational practices that seek to contribute to the treatment of drug users. Thus, this research aims to understand the positioning of CAPS AD professionals about their educational practices in the RD actions used with drug users. This is a qualitative, exploratory research, developed with professionals from three CAPS AD in Alagoas who work with RD actions, and with the use of two online conversation circles through Google Meet, and with the use of a WhatsApp group and sending an e-mail to the participants. The number of participants in this study is approximately 18 professionals, this number was obtained via email by the three coordinators of CAPS AD of Alagoas and it concerns all the workers who work with RD actions in these institutions. The theoretical and methodological framework adopted is that of Discursive Practices (SPINK, 2013) with a focus on the concept of Positioning (DAVIES; HARRÉ, 1999). To obtain the information about the positions of the professionals in the mental health network regarding their educational practices, we used the methodological instrument of conversation wheels (MELO et al., 2007; RAMOS et al., 2013; WARSCHAUER, 2017). With this, this research seeks to contribute to the study methodologies in the virtual field; to new forms of educational practices in education and health; to the strengthening of new forms of professional performance and to the improvement of the treatment performed with drug users.