[The use of interviews in participative intervention and research: the GAM tool as a collective interview].
This paper seeks to assess a way of conducting interviews in line with the ideology of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. In the methodology of participative intervention and research in mental health, the interview is less a data collection than a data harvesting procedure. It is designed to apply the principles of psychosocial care, autonomy as the basis for treatment, the predominance of the users and of their social networks and civic participation. Inspired by the Explicitation Interview technique, the contention is that the handling of the interview presupposes an open attitude able to promote and embrace different viewpoints. This attitude makes the interview a collective experience of sharing and belonging, allowing participants to reposition themselves subjectively in treatment with the emergence of groupality. As an example of using the interview as a methodological tool in mental health research, we examine research into adaptation of the tool of Autonomous Medication Management (GAM). It is an interventionist approach guided by principles that foster autonomy and the protagonist status of users of psychotropic medication, their quality of life, their rights and recognition of the multiple significances of medication, understood here as a collective interview technique.
Christian
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Sade
Leticia Maria Renault
LM
de Barros
Jorge José Maciel
JJ
Melo
Eduardo
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D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D055118:Medication Adherence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012648:Self Care
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs