Arteterapia: o cuidado com o profissional de saúde

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate what the professionals who work in Intensive Care Units (ICU) in hospitals tell about the contributions that an art therapeutic process provide to this kind of professional and at what extend that art therapy, using creativeness, can reverse stressful situations. The theoretical and methodological references are drawn from art therapy seen through a phenomenological approach. In this idea it is argued which are the stressful factors of the health work done in ICU and how these factors affect the professionals from this area. This research was carried out with four ICU professionals who had experience in public health attendance. This group had ten meetings where art therapeutic experiments were used. The thoughts that each one of them experienced in the process were gathered as well as the understandings about their artistic productions. The dealing of indicators went through several steps. The speech of the participants was recorded in order to bring out the experienced process. Then they were organized in nucleus to arise main subjects to be analyzed. Verbal language as well as artistic language were both considered. The analysis pointed out indicators, which allowed identifying the situations and feelings that cause stress-related effects to these professionals in their day-by-day work and also at what extend that art therapeutic resources helped them to solve conflicts. The research emphasizes the need to promote groups for conversations and support to the professionals who work in health service. Art therapy proved to be a suitable therapeutic instrument as it provided a space for swapping and solving conflicts and feelings resulted from the stress in face of death and pain