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PEREIRA, Marina Heleno  e  GOMES, José Carlos. Terapia de Grupo para Familiares de Pessoas com Perturbação Mental Grave: Estudo de Caso Múltiplo. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2012, n.8, pp.38-44. ISSN 1647-2160.

The family plays a key role in caring people with severe mental disorder. However, this entails not only benefits but also an impact on their health and quality of life. Therefore, it is necessary that nurses develop interventions to improve their welfare. The evidence also point to group therapy as an excellent resource to promote the resolution of family problems and to reduce social isolation and burden on families. There by it was developed a research toassess the impact of group therapy at the level of solving problems of relatives from people with severe mental disorder, performed by specialists nurses in mental health. This research it’s about a multiple case study with an exploratory experiments, given that each participant of the sample completed a questionnaire to assess the family problems before and after the intervention, using the Questionário dos Problemas Familiares, translated and adapted to Portuguese by Xavier and Caldas de Almeida in 2002. All the formal and ethical aspects were respected. Sample selection was non-probabilistic intentional and was composed by three elements. This intervention consisted in nine sessions, developed in a weekly bases, for a period of one hour and thirty minutes. In all the sessions, several specialized interventions in mental health nursing, appropriate to each participant, were developed. The data obtained was processed in computer, using the Statistic Package for Social Sciences program, 14.0 version for Windows XP, and using the descriptive statistics (absolute frequencies). The results highlight the importance of this type of intervention to solve problems of family members of people with severe mental disorder. However, these results were not clear in one case.

Palavras-chave : Mental Health; Family; Problem Solving; Group Therapy.

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