<b>The family insert in mental care in a center for psychosocial care</b> - DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v8i0.9716

Abstract

Discusses the family insert in mental care health in a Center for Psychosocial Care (CPC). This subject emerged from a wider research of Evaluation of Centers for Psychosocial Care in the south area of Brazil, denominated CAPSUL, and the results here presented have been originated from the qualitative stage of the study. It is an evaluating research, of the type case study, accomplished in a Center for Psychosocial Care of Joinville the municipality of the State of Santa Catarina, in the period July-August 2006, that grew starting from the Evaluation of Fourth Generation, constructionist, responsive and a hermeneutic-dialectics approach. The instruments of data collection were the interviews with team, users, family and field observation. Starting from the systematic grouping of the nuclei of meanings, it was possible to reach two discussion axes. In the first of them, entitled the family while caretaker unit, we gathered the users' positioning and of the relatives due to they believe in family as dimension of the treatment. In the second, entitled CAPS as support dimension to the family, we worked with the data produced by the interviews which discussed the role of the service in providing support and integrating that family in the therapeutic project.