INTEGRATIVE COMMUNITY THERAPY: ONLINE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR DEMANDS ENHANCED BY THE PANDEMIC

Abstract

Online Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) is a welcoming strategy and a space of care for the university community, offered at a time of pandemic. The objective was to understand the students' view of the ICT meetings in the teaching-learning process. This is a qualitative study, undertaken through semi-structured interviews with individuals who had attended therapy. The results were analyzed and categorized based on Bardin's content analysis. Despite not having a priori psychotherapeutic purpose, the presence of therapeutic factors in operation investigated in ICT was perceived, signaling the importance of developing psychosocial reception strategies in the pandemic context. From the material produced, it was noted that the participants reported improvements after participating in the meetings, and it was possible to identify in the universality a collaborative and solidarity network, of bonding. The study was able to identify that ICT provided opportunities to promote mental health, enabling collective learning and sharing of problems and solutions.