TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL E JUVENTUDES

AÇÕES DO NÚCLEO METUIA NA UNCISAL

Abstract

This article seeks to report an experience of the Occupational Therapy course at the State University of Health Sciences of Alagoas that articulated extension, teaching and research from the actions of the extension project “Youth, support networks and citizenship: actions of social occupational therapy in contexts of vulnerability”. The activities described were carried out in the second half of 2019 with the young people of a dance group linked to the Service of Coexistence and Strengthening of Bonds of a Reference Center for Social Assistance in Maceió, being an experience located at the interface of Occupational Therapy with the Social Assistance area. Data and information were collected from notes in a field diary, consulting the extension project files and applying a questionnaire to the participants. The results are presented and discussed based on three thematic axes: Conflicting demands and articulation of resources and technologies in the social field; The centrality of dance in the lives of young people; Vulnerable youth and protagonism through dance. The results showed the possibilities of dance as a form of protagonism and sociocultural participation, highlighting the contributions of occupational therapy, based on the extension project, to work on these issues with young people in situations of social vulnerability. For the participating students, the project fostered theoretical and practical training in social occupational therapy, developing skills and competences for working in the social field, from the approximation with the field of practice, the critical understanding of reality and the proposition and experimentation of resources and technologies for intervention in social occupational therapy, in addition to the development of research in the same field.