ABSTRACT
This text presents a bibliographic review carried out at the Virtual Library in Health/Psychology/ Brazil (BVS-PSI/Brazil) with the objective of understanding the meanings of care in psychosocial care based on available Brazilian scientific articles. We conducted a search with the DeCS/Mesh descriptors to access the quantity of available publications. We did a bibliographic review of this literature, described the content of the articles, identified the linguistic repertories present and problematized problematized the various meanings of care in the perspective of psychosocial care. We worked with the contributions of Discursive Psychology and the constructionist movement to understand the complexity and polyphony of that field. The results have been grouped into three categories: Public Policy and Psychiatric Reform in Brazil; Models of assistance and controversies in the management and organization of the work process; and Collective Health. We can visua-lize, in a broad and dynamic way, the conceptual, sometimes disconnected and reductionist transits, sometimes as an important way for the transformation of mental health practices into psychosocial care.
KEYWORDS
Mental health; Mental health services; Healthcare models