title: [Care and Self-Care Among Families with a Person Suffering from Bipolar Disorder and Belonging to the Psychoeducational Group of the Psychiatry Department of the University of Antioquia, Colombia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the families from the Psychoeducational Group of the Psychiatry Department of the University of Antioquia that have one member with bipolar disorder (BD) in order to identify their care-related practices.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive research project using the phenomenological and hermeneutic method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve families. The data obtained were analyzed using the Atlas ti qualitative software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two main categories emerged: 1. Care and family life course and 2. Care and self-care in relation to bipolar disorder. The first category manifests itself through practices such as: Taking care of the diseased person by being physically present, providing physical or emotional support, or by transferring care-related actions to other family members. Two main perspectives could be identified in the second category, namely: the caretaker's perspective and that of the person being taken care of. Two tendencies were found regarding the first one: taking care of others brings about transformations in the caretakers and taking care of others is tough. The second perspective has the same number of tendencies: self-care as poetics and taking care of oneself in order to go from the Diving Bell to the Butterfly.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Taking care of others is a way of building humanity. Conducting research on care and self-care practices (i.e. the practices of both the caretaker and the person being taken care of) results in a more aesthetic way of providing care and a more aesthetic patient-caretaker dyad.
authors.affiliation: Médica. Especialista en terapia familiar. Magíster en educación y desarrollo humano. Coordinadora, Maestría en Terapia Familiar y de Pareja, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Antioquia. Electronic address: mbuilescorrea@gmail.com.
authors.forename: María Victoria Builes
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.affiliation: Psicólogo. Magíster en psicología clínica. Estudiante, Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales. Docente, Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
authors.forename: Mauricio Bedoya
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hernández
keywords: Familia; Family; autocuidado; bipolar affective disorder; care; cuidado; self-care; trastorno afectivo bipolar