"Tem que aguentar a pressão" : como profissionais de saúde mental lidam com o medicar a infância e a adolescência.

Abstract

It is a qualitative research where we sought, through semi-structured interviews and utilizing Content Analysis, to understand how mental health professionals from the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, who work in the care of childhood and adolescence, deal with the social pressure to medicate, how they perceive the medication in these phases of life and in which situations they judge the medication as necessary. Through the reports of the participants, it was possible to confirm that the participants feel pressure to prescribe medication and where that pressure comes from. During the analysis process the interviews were transcribed in full and the speeches where put in two categories, intermediate and final. The following categories emerged as a result of this study: The pressures of society on medication; Strategies to avoid the pressure; When is the medicine welcome; The medication as a quick solution to problems and Diagnose and medicate.