Implantação de Terapia Comunitária online: tecnologia do cuidado em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

Suddenly in March 2020 we found ourselves confined and isolated in our homes, due to a global health crisis arising from a pandemic, caused by the contamination of a virus called COVID-19. This health crisis also generated a crisis in the social determinants of health, especially those related to the economy, education and culture. But it also generated another crisis, the psychosocial crisis, where populations affected by the effects of mental damage caused by the pandemic and isolation, showed important signs of stress. It is in this scenario that the Integrative Community Therapy, previously carried out in person, is renewed and reinvented. This article reports on the experience of implementing the Integrative Community Therapy online in Brazil and presents the results of the Afinando Vidas Pole in the contribution of improving the quality of life and the individual and collective mental health of the Brazilian population.

Online Integrative Community Therapy in Latin America: Health Promotion in Times of COVID-19

“…During the pandemic, several individual and collective strategies were implemented to promote health, many with the use of media and technologies and the ICPH approach (Damiano et al, 2021). The implementation of online ICT had the challenge of using hard technologies (through the use of cell phones or computers) that would allow the intervention of a light care technology, which is the practice of ICT in its essence, characterized by the processes of reception, bonding, and humanization of health care (A. L. P. Silva et al, 2020).…”