Academic sayings from the past and the present about the Nursing Role in the Process and Routine of Deinstitutionalization

Abstract

This Integrative Review aims to explore the Brazilian scientific production of psychiatric nursing about psychosocial rehabilitation from 1992 to 2014. The analysis of the surveyed articles results in five thematic categories: nursing and Psychiatric Reform, tools and strategies that provide psychosocial rehabilitation, family background in psychosocial rehabilitation, Psychosocial Care Centers and other spaces as facilitators of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health in primary care. According to our conclusions greater investment in the nurses’ professional training is necessary in order to fulfill the demands of care to the people with mental illness presented by the Psychiatric Reform, which has been slowly consolidating with inclusion strategies that seem appropriate, but still insufficient.