The theoretical-practical experience with Matrix Support

device for the training of students, researchers and workers within brazilian Universal Health System

Abstract

This experience report discusses the Matrix Support action developed between the Federal Fluminense University, workers and managers of Mental Health and Primary Care in the city of Volta Redonda, RJ, addressing the Matrix Support as a device for training students, researchers and workers in the SUS. We observed that the actors involved experienced the challenges of articulating Mental Health care actions in the territory, problematizing the fragmentation of work processes in health care and understanding Psychology’s place in sustaining shared knowledges. In this sense, the University's role is to support, both in theory and in the field, the construction of the Matrix Support as a working principle that enables a relationship between Mental Health and Primary Care. We concluded emphasizing that working with Matrix Support is investing in training, promoting subjective transformations that affirm new ways of caring among theactors involved in health practices.