Atividades de trabalho dos militares do Corpo de Bombeiros do Maranhão: implicações e necessidades do psicólogo na corporação

Abstract

The lack of a professional psychologist in the corporation Military Firefigther is a problem that is observed when carrying out an analysis of the work activities of the military personnel of the Maranhão Military Fire Brigade, focusing on the implications and needs of that professional in the corporation. In order to carry out the analysis of the problem, it was necessary to look for military corporations in which there was already a specific competition for this area and bibliographic collections on the main behavioral changes that firefighters are targeted as well as their possible reasons. The obstacle is identified as it is analyzed in the context of the firefighter's career the number of military personnel who are retired with psychiatric problems, are on the medical board for psychological problems and who have some sequel as a result of their professional activity. In order to reach a possible answer, the general objective was to demonstrate the real need for psychologists to work in the Maranhão Military Fire Brigade corporation. And as specific objectives: to identify the behavioral anomalies of Maranhão's military firefighters, during an occurrence, observing the greatest moment of tension and anomalies derived from work stress; diagnose the real need of the psychologist in the corporation, as well as express the lack of professionals in the staff of vacancies at CBMMA; synthesize areas of action of the Psychologist at CBMMA, both in the corporation's end activity in cases involving A01 (psychiatric patient) or in the middle activity, providing assistance to the corporation's staff. The methodology outlined for the production of the work was a bibliographic review and a field research, being applied a questionnaire aiming at the implementation in reality of the Maranhão Military Fire Brigade, of an exploratory and descriptive theoretical character with the treatment of data in the CBMMA universe with a qualitative approach to the mental health of Maranhão's military firefighters and a quantitative approach to data collection and treatment. The aforementioned objectives were achieved using the methodology described above. Thus, both the bibliographic review and the questionnaire detected the need for the psychologist at Maranhão Military Fire Brigade and its importance for the military firefighter institution, where in some states it is already present. Therefore, the need for the professional psychologist to be present in the next public competition for the institution for the inclusion of the same in the corporation and to further improve the quality of the service provided to the population was proven