A importância do acolhimento às famílias de portadores de sofrimento mental pelo PSF

Abstract

By the difficulties of the families of patients with mental illness to have them in your daily basis, from the Psychiatric Reform limiting involuntary admissions and proposes the closure of psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation of patients to their families, this paper proposes a discussion about how these host families by the Family Health Program (PSF) can be very promising thereto regarding the receipt of their sick graduates home. We conducted a bibliographic description, showing that these families were not properly prepared for this new reality. Faced with the difficulties of the families of patients with mental illness to care for them and the constant requests for psychiatric hospitalization of those with persistent pressure on UBS, we discussed the host as a resource to facilitate the inclusion of socio-familial mentally ill and the work of the PSF in this subject, as a new form of mental health care. Was stimulated, then a reflection on how families were excluded in psychiatric care for their sick at the sight of medical knowledge and have been blamed for the illness of its members became valued as essential to such care from World War II, when it began to entertain the deinstitutionalization. It has been shown that, in Brazil, it was from the 80s to the fulfillment of the National Health Conferences that families have become valued as essential to the treatment of people with mental illness. However support strategies and preparation of family members of mentally ill and alternative services is still incipient.