RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA - CONEXÕES COM A FAMÍLIA NO TRABALHO NA SAÚDE MENTAL INFANTOJUVENIL: ENTRE UM IDEAL E O COTIDIANO

This paper discusses some relationships experienced by technicians of public policies that serve children and youth and their families from a research-intervention on intersectoriality. Initially, historical elements are presented about the composition of the network of mental health care in the city of Belo Horizonte and the service flows in this network for this audience. Then, considerations are made about the families assisted and the challenges in the relationships with the technicians, going through the prerogatives of monitoring based on the psychiatric reform and territorial services. A case with a mental health demand is then analyzed, through lines that indicate possibilities of links and articulations of the actors involved and that go through the multiple vulnerabilities common to many young people and their families, including drug problems, ideals of family functioning and composition of the subjects assisted, relationships with the Guardianship Council, possibilities of intersectoral work and other conditions for mental health care. We conclude that, despite the challenges of working with this public, an analysis of the composition of the forces that act in the different meetings is essential for the construction of a powerful and resolutive practice that contributes to the autonomy of the families of children and adolescents assisted by public policies. ABSTRACT