Abstract

WEBER, César Augusto Trinta  and  JURUENA, Mario Francisco. Family’s view on the therapeutic of a mental health partial hospitalization. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2017, n.17, pp.25-33. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0180.

BACKGROUND: In the treatment of mental patients is essential to support the family and the community. On the one hand, the family-support therapies for understanding the illness of the phenomenon, demystifying the disease and its forms of treatment and on the other, the incentive mechanisms to social support networks, as forms of support in the perspective of a new look at the mental health care. AIM: To investigate the family's perception of the therapeutic strategies of a day hospital for mental health for the inclusion of its members. METHODS: Qualitative study, documentary research and case study. RESULTS: The family demonstrated having some knowledge about mental illness. The theoretical and practical learnings acquired in the partial hospitalization has allowed them to better understand and cope with the illness phenomenon that experience with their relatives. As the family becomes part of the care process, and commit to the therapeutic activities proposed, it goes to recognize the effects of each step of this treatment. In many cases, the first results start to be perceived by the positive response in clinical improvement and social reintegration. About Social Networking Support people with mental disorders and their families, most participants reported unknow them. CONCLUSIONS: The theoretical and practical learnings accumulated by the family about mental illness allowed them to better understand and cope with the illness of the phenomenon.

Keywords : Day care; Medical; Community psychiatry; Mental health.

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