title: [Art, culture and care in psychosocial healthcare services].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the process of care developed in group activities of culture and art in community psychosocial healthcare centres.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study is part of research evaluating psychosocial health care centers in the city of São Paulo. Ethnographic reports of 126 art and cultural group activities taking place in 21 centers between 2007 and 2008 were analyzed. The analysis included statements from coordinators on the objectives of the observed activities. Based on theoretical psychosocial health care frameworks, content analysis was used to investigate the relationship between the therapeutic tools used and the objectives of the activities.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three trends of health care were identified: (1) strictly clinical, was predominant and characterized by activities carried out within the centers, with a focus on personal skills and group interactions; (2) psychosocial, including outdoor activities, widening the cultural repertoire and social circulation and; (3) residual, in the minority and without psychosocial benefits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Carrying out art and cultural activities which result in health care from the perspective of psychosocial rehabilitation depends on the health care professionals' access to cultural assets and creative procedures, on the recognition of these activities as part of the coordinated work of a team and on all those involved being considered as actual producers of culture.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, São PauloSPBrazil.
authors.forename: Ana Tereza Costa
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Galvanese
authors.forename: Andréia de Fátima
authors.initials: Ade F
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: Ana Flávia Pires Lucas
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: D'Oliveira
mesh_terms: D001155:Art Therapy / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods*; D054521:Cultural Competency; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*