title: [Innovative practices for health care].
abstract: The need to build a new look to the care, based on dialogue and creativity, enables the social transformation of the role of professionals in their practice. It is understood here that the care is more than an act: it is an attitude. Moreover, the conceptual framework of psychosocial rehabilitation is an instrument that might enable the construction of this new look. In this context, to care is to consider the importance of building projects of life, significant for each user, as lynchpin of the therapeutic action. The necessary changes in mental health's practice and psychiatric nursing are progressing, since the knowledge produced in this area incorporates strategies to welcome and maintenance which considers, at all times, the exercise of active citizenship of the mental patients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Psiquiátrica da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brasil. sobarros@usp.br
authors.forename: Sônia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barros
authors.forename: Márcia Aparecida Ferreira
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Ana Luisa
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Aranha e Silva
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing