title: [Nursing and caring for in the area of mental health].
abstract: This study describes the sociopolitical aspects that involved the psychiatric assistance reform, focusing the deinstitutionalization process and the importance of nursing beyond a component of the interdisciplinary team. It aims to analyze the process of nursing assistance to the mentally sick in services outside the hospital. It is a bibliographical review of national periodicals from 1999 to 2001. The authors discuss workers' engagement in the area of mental health, with the "deconstruction"/construction about care, making necessary a humanized approach by way of the interpersonal relationship of patients, nurses and the teams responsible for giving assistance to the mentally sick.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, USP. sueli.vilela@unifenas.br
authors.forename: Sueli de Carvalho
authors.initials: Sde C
authors.lastname: Villela
authors.forename: Maria Cecília Moraes
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Scatena
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D008603:Mental Health; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing