[CAPS of Florianapolis: a group experience with psychotic clients outside the mental hospital, for 10 year].
It is an experience report done with chronic psychotic clients, in a process of institution disconstruction, that have been followed by a nurse in a CAPS*/NAPS from Florianópolis, during ten years, it is from 1989 to 1999. By the end of this period, it can be visualized that chronic psychotic clients, when they are in a systematic outpatient attendance with a link in a therapeutic group, can keep a reasonable health life, reaching their goals, overcoming their crises and keeping themselves out of the mental hospital.
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Departamento de Enfermagem, UFSC.
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D001938:Brazil; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D012008:Recurrence; D012648:Self Care; D013997:Time Factors