Abstract

RAMIREZ R., SYLVIA A.  and  COLINA MATIZ, SORAYA. ROLL OF THE PHONOAUDIOLOGIST IN THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH: A PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL. rev.fac.med [online]. 2009, vol.17, n.1, pp.26-33. ISSN 0121-5256.

The objective of the present study was to describe the roll of the phonoaudiologist in the area of mental health, from the professional experience in the Central Military Hospital. The used methodology was of descriptive qualitative type, selecting as variables the knowledge and the abilities and skills, technical procedural as much as interpersonal, which the phonoaudiologist that works in the area of mental health possess. In order to fulfill this objective the expert professional was observed during the second semester of 2008 in the evaluations and interventions of eleven patients, men and women, with cognitive-communicative disorders between the ages of 16 and 88, diagnosed previously with mental disease by the psychiatrist. The profile of the professional of phonoaudiology in the area of mental health was later established, its functions and objectives within a multidisciplinary team, as well as its knowledge, abilities and skills. Also the phonoaudiologic procedures that are made in the area of mental health were identified and the tasks that must be developed to evaluate and to take treat the cognitive-communicative disorders. This study allowed to expand and to enrich the theoretical- practical knowledge that sustains the professional task of the phonoaudiologist in the area of mental health, including it within the multidisciplinary team, in the rehabilitation of the patient with mental disease.

Keywords : speech language and hearing sciences; mental health; communication disorders.

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