Familiar living with a psychically perturbed person

Abstract

This paper aimed to evaluate the structure of the family where the bearer of mental disturb upset lives and he got sick. This qualitative and descriptive study. This data were collected and 2004, from a family in which one member is psychically perturbed, and that family has been followed up in a Center for Psycosocial Care. Such data were obtained from three home interviews following the theoretical methodological guidance of Calgary's Method for Family Evaluation, in a cutting based in a structural evaluation. The results shown emphasized the following aspects: internal structure (familiar constitution, gender, sexual direction, birthday order, subsystems, limits), external structure (long family and larger systems), context (ethnics, race, social level, religion and spirituality, environment). We consider the model used is a relevant aport to evaluating families living with psychically perturbed people, pointing out the core aspects of the nursing care for those families.