Continuity of care for children with special healthcare needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To describe the continuity of care for children with special healthcare needs during the COVID-19 pandemic through the perception of their caregivers in the Northeast of Brazil.

Methods: Qualitative descriptive-exploratory research carried out between June and September 2020, in a municipality in the Northeast of Brazil. Eleven caregivers participated through semi-structured interviews conducted at home.

Mental health care technologies: Primary Care practices and processes.

Objective: To analyze the technologies of mental health care used in the practices and processes that constitute Primary Health Care from the discourses of nurses of the Family Health Strategy.

Method: Qualitative approach based on the dialectical hermeneutic composition which aims to perform a comprehensive and critical analysis of semi-structured interviews, and free field observation.

Results: From the empirical material analyzed, two essential analytical categories emerged: "Health technologies used in PHC for the care of users with psychological distress" and "To stop medicating suffering and to Train professionals".