PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MULTIPROFESSIONAL RESIDENCY OF PRIMARY HEALTHCARE: EXPERIENCE REPORT OF A COMPLEX EXPERIENCE PERMEATED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This article presents the experience report of Psychology professionals in the Expanded Center for Family Health and Primary Care (NASF-AB) from a Multiprofessional Residence Program in Primary Health Care in the city of Santos, São Paulo state. The report is based on the performance of resident professional R1 and R2 during the years of 2020 and 2021, when some crossing points of our practices, such as the scrapping of the SUS (Universal Health System), the dismantling of the NASF, the great demand mental health cases and the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, were fundamental for the restlessness of our days and realization of this experience sharing. We have divided the report, solely for organizational purposes of reading, into three essential aces that guide our daily work based on matrix support, understating that their blend and complement each other: 1) teamwork and interprofessionality, 2) territoriality and 3) overload, all permeated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Various adversities are unveiled from these axes, but also a lot of power and resistance, highlighting the vital role and place of Psychology in the Multiprofessional Residency and in the NASF-AB itself.