RESEARCH-TRAINING AS A SCHOOL DEVICE TO THINK ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF STUDENTS IN THE PANDEMIC

Abstract

The objective was to develop training in mental health in a public school to encourage debates on themes that involved conditions of protection and understanding of health risk. In addition to investigating the relational dynamics of meetings, which with the occurrence of the pandemic became virtual. The method took place through research-training, a type of scientific know-how that assumes subjectivity in the course of training as important and which is critically-politically centered. The group was composed of the school and academic community. The meetings took place monthly or bimonthly through online platforms, generating logbooks, drawings, photographs, poetry, among others. The evaluated results led to points of debate named as pandemic and common feelings, challenges and reflections from the pandemic and sharing of care strategies. The results pointed to new modes of subjectivation as a result of the pandemic in coping with the interposed reality, the worsening of the health situation of those who were already suffering from illness and the notion that the proposition of a group that gathers to elaborate the experience in a shared and cooperative is a possible health care strategy. The importance of the public school is reaffirmed as an institution that enables, through debate, the understanding of risk contexts and health protection for the purposes of training not only technical but also socio-emotional, ethical, aesthetic and political.