title: [Team work in a family health care program: the team process concept and operational teams].
abstract: This work is a theoretical revision of team work in a family Health Care Program. We define team work in the health care field as a relationship network among people, power, knowledge, affection, and wishes, when there is a possibility of identifying group processes. We deal with concepts of Operational Group from the Argentinean School, which might help health professionals to get training in team work. We have visible (spoken) and invisible (unspoken) tasks within teams, which are modified and need to be combined and known. Communication, learning, the feeling of belonging, the atmosphere, the actions' pertinence for the team's purpose and power relations may help the team to get to know and analyze each other and to build a team. External supervision may help the team to turn itself into an operational team, working towards a life care project.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. cinirafortuna@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Cinira Magali
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fortuna
authors.forename: Silvana Martins
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mishima
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matumoto
authors.forename: Maria José Bistafa
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009729:Nursing; D010348:Patient Care Team