Throughout its history, occupational therapy in Brazil has been incorporating and modifying theoretical-methodological perspectives and theoretical-practical references in consonance with historical, social and political contexts. Academic and professional production has been an important tool for spreading new references to the profession. This article aims to present and discuss the emergence of theoretical-methodological perspectives and theoretical-practical references by the Brazilian occupational therapy, from 1956 to 2017, according to historical, social and political milestones, based on indexed national journals of the area and gray literature for the years before their creation. This is a theoretical research on the historical-epistemological foundations of occupational therapy. We mapped and analyzed the production to identify trends and regularities, and thus present a systematic proposal of incorporation of perspectives and references in the area. This study identified four main movements: (i) Constitution of the first theoretical-practical bases of occupational therapy in Brazil; (ii) Problematization of the knowledge and practices of occupational therapy, based on contributions from Collective Health and Human and Social Sciences; (iii) Constitution of the fields of knowledge and practice of occupational therapy through socio-political contextualization, theoretical-conceptual problematization and proposition of emancipatory practices; (iv) Intense theoretical-conceptual and methodological diversification in the production of occupational therapy knowledge and practices. Panoramic studies on academic and professional production are necessary for the epistemological reflection of the profession. The study identified the emergence of critical thinking in Brazilian occupational therapy at the end of the 1970s, and the continuity of practices, knowledge perspectives and references previously presented.

Resumo Na reforma psiquiátrica brasileira, é importante a participação de pessoas com experiência de sofrimento psíquico enquanto atores sociais na construção desse processo, que envolve a criação de novas políticas públicas, práticas, saberes e modos de relação com essa experiência. A partir do questionamento acerca do percurso histórico específico da saúde mental infantojuvenil e da participação de crianças e adolescentes nesse processo, foi feita uma revisão narrativa da literatura que busca evidenciar os momentos principais dessa trajetória, no que concerne à produção de políticas públicas e legislações. A revisão consistiu na busca de documentos técnicos e institucionais da área temática da Saúde Mental em base de dados nacionais, além de documentos legais. O material analisado versou sobre um conjunto de marcos da atenção à saúde mental de crianças e adolescentes e a análise assinalou os caminhos trilhados na construção desse campo. Ainda, na perspectiva de um comentário, foi discutida a participação de crianças e adolescentes com sofrimento psíquico nesse processo. Este artigo destaca a necessidade de construir garantias concretas de participação dessa população, possibilitando que assumam o papel de protagonista na luta pela construção e garantia de direitos.

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Within the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform scenario, a new policy for mental healthcare specifically for children and adolescents is under construction. However, studies have indicated that hospitalization in psychiatric institutions still occurs among this population. As a preliminary research result over a two-month period, we identified who are these children and adolescents in a hospital with psychiatric beds were and the reasons for their hospitalization. We analyzed the medical files of 28 subjects using a hermeneutic dialectic approach. The results indicated that hospitalization of cases with a profile similar to that of the time before the reform of psychiatric care was continuing and that the main reason for hospitalization related to aggressiveness and dangerousness. It was concluded that, despite the reform, psychiatric hospitalization in institutions of asylum nature is still occurring.