Description

This group responds to the need to promote the healthy capabilities of people emotionally affected by the crisis, who not only suffer from job, housing, or dignity losses, but are also victims of medicalization (in the sense of treating their distress as a sign of an illness that needs medication, ignoring its psychosocial causes).

We propose to equip ourselves with a comprehensive model, based not on disease detection but on the promotion of mental health and prevention (of medicalization, chronic suffering, social isolation, etc.). We propose the creation of a network of professionals and affected organizations (unemployed, evicted people, etc.) that:

  • Recognize your professional and civic responsibility to be actors, and not just victims/spectators of the crisis and its effects.
  • Considering clinical practice and/or mutual aid as a laboratory and a privileged tool for producing new knowledge.
  • Be prepared to investigate and act on the problems of these people and groups, to the best of your abilities.

Therefore, through a participatory process, different Reflection and Action Groups (RAGs) will be created in the territory to identify needs and develop and implement emotional support actions for those affected by the crisis.

Objectives:

  • Develop scientific and outreach material
  • Increase the capacity of professionals
  • Reduce overmedicalization
  • Generate individual, family, and group health promotion activities
  • Working for Mental Health-generating communities for these people and families at risk of social exclusion.
  • Create emotional support systems
  • Investigate and develop the experience that the GRA network implements.

Activities

  • Creation of the Reflection and Action Groups (RAG) Network
  • Continuing education initiatives.
  • Implementation of Emotional Support Groups (ESGs) for trade unions, affected platforms, and neighborhood associations.
  • Theoretical elaboration of the experience.
  • Spread and facilitate the dissemination of experience throughout Catalonia
  • Connect and collaborate with professionals and platforms from other European countries.

Standing Committee

Lluís Isern, Ma José Fernandez, Imma Cortés, Maria Martínez, Ester Boixadera, Víctor Martí.

If you want more information or to participate in the group, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With the support:

ajuntament