Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde (Jan 2012)

The therapeutic relationship in the care given to a schizophrenic: narratives of a field diary - doi:10.5020/18061230.2007.p116

  • Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo,
  • Ana Claudia Silva Lemos,
  • Carolina Maria de Lima Carvalho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5020/1012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
pp. 116 – 123

Abstract

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The schizophrenia is a chronic psychosis with serious social and functional consequences, demanding multiples ways of care in its treatment. This research aimed at describing the evolution of a patient taken ill with paranoid schizophrenia, by means of the adoption of the Therapeutic Relationship process, as a modality of nursing psychiatric care, registered in a field diary as narratives of life experiences, during ten meeting days in one psychiatric service of Fortaleza. It was perceived that the application of the Therapeutic Relationship, gradually, enabled to the studied client the confrontation of personal conflicts (complicated family dynamics, rejection and depression) and the satisfaction of basic needs such as the communication and group interaction. Therein, the Therapeutic Relationship is considered a primordial care technique in the reintegration and reorganization of the schizophrenic client, as well as in the search of a better quality of life.

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