ASSISTÊNCIA PSICOLÓGICA NA PROMOÇÃO DE SAÚDE MENTAL DA MULHER NEGRA EM CONTEXTO DE VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL

Abstract

The present study addresses the need to promote mental health to black women in a context of social vulnerability, as well as the possibilities of acting in psychology in this scenario, taking into account the historical process of these women, from the slavery period to the present. The research aims to understand how psychology can help to promote the mental health of black women in situations of social vulnerability. The specific objectives consist identify the psychological impacts suffered by this population, to discourse the importance of promoting mental health for black women and to discuss how psychology if effective in the context of the vulnerability of black women in society. With that, a literature review was carried out, with a qualitative approach based from the search for selected descriptors, in online databases. The systematization and treatment of information occurred according to the content analysis proposed by Bardin. The factors that make the black female population inferior were observed as responsible for their psychic illness, in addition, the crossing of prejudice and racial discrimination in this woman's life makes her access to physical and mental health services difficult, however, it was noted the existence of policies aimed at the health of black women. Faced with the challenges referents to the few scientific productions that dealt with the theme, ample possibilities were perceived to explore it, since it is an inexhaustible reflection due to its various nuances that start from the construction of an identity based on a psychic lined reality, economic and social singular the black woman.