Nursing intervention for family members of patients treated at CAPS: an experience report

Abstract

The Psychosocial Care Centers are spaces for receiving service users with mental disorders who are undergoing non-hospital treatment. Their function is to provide psychological and medical care, with the aim of reintegrating patients into society. They have a multidisciplinary team, which must provide care to users through individual or group care, therapeutic workshops, home visits, family care and community activities, among other services. Considering this background, the general objective of the research is to report on the nurse's experience in nursing intervention with the families of users of the Psychosocial Care Center service in the municipality of Pão de Açúcar - AL, Brazil. The guiding question is: what is the perception of the academic's role in the nursing intervention with family members of users of the CAPS service in the municipality of Pão de Açúcar - AL, Brazil? From a methodological point of view, this is an academic experience report with qualitative characteristics, of a descriptive nature, with a time frame, carried out at the CAPS in Pão de Açúcar - AL. Finally, through the internship, it was possible to see that care for the families of CAPS service users should be carried out from an individualized and humanized perspective, encouraging care, information and family participation in meetings.