Psychosocial rehabilitation and family: considerations about the re-structuration of the psychiatric assistance in Brazil

Abstract

We describe here a study about the re-structuration of the psychiatric assistance in Brazil. It is focused the interlocution field that is possible between the psychosocial rehabilitation and the family. The re-structuration of the psychiatric assistance in Brazil was oficialized in 1990, in the wake of the Caracas Declaration, wich Brazil is a signatory. In this process, the priority is the progressive substitution of the tradicional psychiatric hospitals for substitutive services, with the main characteristic is opening the relationships and practices that are developed. There are others actions that have encouraged the re-structuration and were approved by the Brazilian Health Ministery in the 1990. These actions were endorsed by the experiences of the substitutive services to the hospitalocentric model. The psychosocial rehabilitation is an old concept that is, however, re-defining in this process. In this article, the psychosocial rehabilitation is approached regarding its interface with the family of the mental disturbed person.