Analysis of the services of the Psychosocial Care Network: an integrative review

Abstract

The Psychiatric Reform propitiated to the emergence of substitutive services for psychiatric hospitals to care for and welcome people in psychological distress. Thus, this article aims to address the perception of these services in the current scenario based on the productions found on the subject. The methodology used was the Integrative Review in the main databases in the period of ten years (2012 to 2022), which resulted in the analysis of 26 studies. It is considered that there is a predominance of qualitative research and that, despite advances, the Rede de Atenção Psicossocial (RAPS) still seems to run into constant challenges, evidenced by the scrapping of services, which result in a network that is incipient, due to the lack of financial and human investments, and which worsened from 2017 onwards due to a government project that operated in a process of dismantling and neglect, going against the grain of the advances achieved in recent decades.