Clinical analysis of working activity in the context of individual care - limits and possibilities for the transformation of working activity and individual health
Psychology; organisations; health; clinics of working activity; clinic of activity; worker;
This research is interested in the problems of individual psychological care in workers' health within the scope of public policies on Worker's Health and related to the performance of Psychology in the world of work. We assume, based on a clinical-developmental work psychology, that actions interested in the production of health and worker development need to seek the transformation of work situations, in their individual and collective aspects and actions. Our objective is to define a theoretical-methodological possibility of clinical analysis of the work activity, which articulates the development of health and the development of the work itself, as a theoretical-technical subsidy in the production of devices for individual psychological care for the worker. We started from the methodology in Clinic of Activity from the following methods: a) analysis of the records of a clinical experience of individual psychological care linked to work demands and based on Clinic of Activity; b) production and analysis of collective dialogues between psychologists about their practices in the health-work-development interface; c) integration of the two analysis and elaboration of the methodological proposal. The results of the first analysis (clinical case) indicated the relevance of the methodological arrangement experienced in the clinical experience for the health and development of the person assisted in terms of: expansion of understanding and critical thinking about determinants of their work; production of simultaneous movements of affectations and instrumentalizations of thought and action; presence of well-being or decrease in psychic discomfort connected to the expansion of the power to act in work activities. As for the collective dialogues between professionals, these were carried out, as well as a pre-analysis of the records with validation of the participants. We hope results of this research will contribute for the debate about the possibilities of clinical action in the context of human labor, and therefore helping in the production of development of health among workers. We also hope to contribute for the amplification of the possibilities of action for the psychologist of working activity.