EXPERIÊNCIA DE UMA EQUIPE DE SAÚDE MENTAL COMUNITÁRIA NA ASSISTÊNCIA DE FAMÍLIAS CONVIVENDO COM A DEPRESSÃO

Depression continues to increase progressively in society and affects not only an individual but also his family, and this fact makes this issue turn from a primary level of attention to a priority one. Our objective was to get to know how the members of an intra-discipline community team describe their experiences by working with families that live in an environment of depression.Weused the ethnographic method and in order to obtain data we used a form containing and open question followed by a graph.Wemade the following cultural categories: “Describing what is found”, “Signaling the amount of time the family takes to perceive the signs of people with the mental sickness”, “Describing their actions”, Commenting on the interaction with the family”, and as a cultural theme: “Integrating a team regardless of the differences”. According to the study, although the members might get a job in an intra-disciplinary team, the experience is described according to the vision or function of each member. Nevertheless, they are able to obtain global information about the patient in a climate of mutual respect considering the complementary of knowledge.