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Recognizing the central role of mental health in global health and affirming the complexity of the universalization of care policy, this paper discusses aspects of global mental health in Brazil and Italy - two countries that are a potential reference for exchange between the global North and South. Using ethnographic and action research methodologies, we conducted a study of a virtual community of practice composed of Brazilians and Italians interested in community mental health care. The results are presented in scenes that provide insights for the international debate in three categories: the doctor-centered approach to care; the institutionalization of care and medicalization of suffering; and the contribution of community practices and non-specialized local knowledge. The locally situated scenes cast light on globally shared critical knots, elucidating a plural set of relationships that run through work processes and mental health care. The sharing of knowledge and experiences highlight what should be universalized: opportunities for horizontal exchange, rather than the production of national identities that radiate universalizing practices and policies.

Introduction: New contexts of practice demand that professionals engage in critical reflection to handle new situations and to create new knowledge that is responsive to professional practices situated in unique historical and social contexts. Community of Practice offers a framework for professions to reflect together on practice dilemmas and to generate practical solutions., Methods: This paper presents a participatory action research project that traces the trajectory of a Community of Practice made up of seven occupational therapists working in primary health care and a researcher team, in Brazil. This study mapped the Community of Practice's trajectory between 2013 and 2017 through a group timeline analysis, which occurred gradually, in a collaborative mode., Results: Three distinct phases in the trajectory of the development of the Community of Practice were identified: narrative perspectives were utilised as a means to identify dilemmas and difficulties in practice; the investigation of clients' needs and identification of issues was an ongoing process; and the generation of practice-based knowledge through the development of instruments to sustain clinical reasoning was a creative solution to practical dilemmas., Conclusion: Three main aspects were highlighted: the partnership between researchers and practitioners as a potential avenue for the production of knowledge relevant to professional practice; the negotiation of the dilemma of "putting practice into words" in the context of constantly changing local and global perspectives; and the investigation of situated practice as an important element that can strengthen, strain, resist or even modify hegemonic perspectives of knowledge production in our field., (© 2020 Occupational Therapy Australia.)

This study sought to identify adolescents' perception regarding the mental health crises they experienced, as well as their trajectory when seeking care. The participants were five adolescents aged between 16 and 17 years who frequent a Center for Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care (CAPSij, in Portuguese) who gave interviews following open-ended scripts based on oral history methods. The narratives were recorded, transcribed, rendered into text and analyzed through a thematic analysis. Results indicate: (a) the crisis experience connected, in particular, with intense feelings of anguish, sadness and worthlessness, suicide ideation and attempt - experienced as an individual problem; (b) relationships with peers and family members triggering crisis processes when permeated by different types of violence; and as emotional and social support when immersed in relationships of trust; (c) the predominant trajectory for accessing care was centered in points of the Psychosocial Care Network and there were no reports of hospital admissions; (d) difficulties in care are centered on treatment adhesion, participation in collective care spaces and resistance to medication. This study is an advancement, presenting the understanding of mental health crisis and factors involved in this experience, through the perspective of the adolescents who experienced it, as well as identifying the paths they followed when searching for treatment and the perceptions that emerged from the experience of care in the services.