Reabilitação Psicossocial de Pessoas com Esquizofrenia: Estudo de Caso

Abstract

Recent changes in the psychiatric paradigm related to the deinstitutionalization process presuppose the development of services of community integration. Studies conducted in other countries show better results in psychosocial rehabilitation programs than treatment in psychiatric hospitals. However, in Portugal mental health services are not consistent with the state of the art in the area. In this sense, the main goal of this work is to know and to analyse an experience, which is unique for its characteristics, of psychosocial rehabilitation in the area of mental illness, in our region. This research is a case study and the unity of analysis is a Private Institution of Social Solidarity, the Association of Social Rehabilitation and Deinstitutionalization of Psychiatric Patients (ARSDOP), in which we have sought to describe its global functioning model and, more specifically, its work and residential rehabilitation models.