Objective

To understand the challenges faced by workers in the daily activities related to psychosocial care, considering affective relationships, care management and interdisciplinarity.

Materials and Methods

Reflective qualitative research of phenomenological nature from a hermeneutic perspective, carried out with mental health professionals of the Psychosocial Support Center of Fortaleza-CE, Brazil.

Results

Subjectivities related to the precariousness of health work, determined by deficient physical infrastructure, quantity and quality of material, arose from the daily routine of psychosocial care, exposing discouragement in the exercise of practices and quality care.

Conclusions

The management of care as a guide to innovative mental health practices provides sustainability for a practice that is necessary to consolidate and solve the social life demands of users and of work processes in the field of mental health.