The body practices concerning mental health : a football workshop capabilities and possibilities in a psychosocial care centre

Physical education has been emerging from the field of mental health in order to contribute to the therapeutic process for mental health service users, e.g. the Psychosocial Care Centres (PSCCs). In this study, we aimed at assessing how important is a football workshop, which would occur at Porto Alegre, for PSCC users. This study is both qualitative and ethnographic. The active participation of users arisen from the football workshop was enormously important for this study. Such participation provided interesting moments of an important role for the participants who had not experienced such moments before