O jogo dramático no cuidado em saúde mental em vivência com estudantes de nível técnico

Abstract

Abstract: Nursing work involves dedication in caring for the other and often implies an intense workload, with long journeys in unhealthy environments, in addition to daily living with pain, illness and the loss of patients. Such stressors can affect the quality of life of professionals, as well as their mental health. The psychodramatic technique, by stimulating creativity, spontaneity, self-knowledge can lead to reflection on professional performance. Objective: to report the experience of using the dramatic game in experience with students from the technical nursing course at the Technical School of Health in Brasília. 27 students participated. Conducted by a socio-educational psychodramatist, in three classic steps - warm up, dramatize and process/share. In the sharing phase, they expressed suffering and anguish in the face of difficulties identified in the curricular internship practices, such as: lack of time to develop procedures properly; activity overload; direct contact with the pain of the other and perception of precarious occupational conditions. By sharing their own suffering and accessing the other's, the experience provided an opportunity to reflect on human vulnerability and expand self-knowledge. The dramatic game, by providing students with the possibility of giving new meaning to their professional practice, can be a pedagogical instrument of great value.