Saúde mental de crianças dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: implicações na prática pedagógica no contexto de Oeiras-PI

Abstract

Mental health is associated with the subject's state of complete well-being, it is knowing how to deal with emotions in the midst of everyday circumstances that the social environment in which one lives offers.Thus, as it is considered an environment for the construction of knowledge, the school is an important means of adopting healthy practices and habits that encourage health promotion, so that children and adolescents, who are in the growth phase, come to have physical and mental development appropriate to each stage of their life.In this way, the general objective of the work is to analyze the implications of mental health issues of children in the early years of elementary school in pedagogical practice in the context of Oeiras/PI.The research starts from a qualitative approach, articulated from bibliographic reviews, with Brazil (1988), Freire (2015), Naujorks (2002), Estanislau (2014) as main references.A questionnaire was applied to six teachers from the initial years of elementary school to investigate their conceptions about mental health in the school context.The results obtained revealed the importance of dialogue on the topic at school, in addition to greater knowledge on the part of education professionals from the perspective of reflections on mental health, as one of the bases for preventing mental problems today.