Abstract

VENTURA VELAZQUEZ, René Esteban; MORENO PUEBLA, Reynol; CABALLERO MORENO, Antonio  and  HERNANDEZ TAPANES, Solangel. Consideraciones históricas de la rehabilitación comunitaria en psiquiatría. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2003, vol.32, n.3. ISSN 0138-6557.

Community psychiatry is called to become the fundamental option to prevent and treat mental disorders, starting from its assistance resources and from the rehabilitation actions and the incorporation of patients to the community by using technqiues, methods and theories of social psychiatry and other social research sciences, and to meet the needs of mental health in a community. This need has faced multiple obstacles that are analyzed in this paper. Is feasibility is stressed based on the various advances of the scientific and technical development in psychiatry that has created the bases for reinserting mental patients into society, overcoming the existing mentality that relates these patients to violence, the behavior unpredictability, and the polymorphous psychopathological and behavioral manifestations. An analysis of particular models and experiences in different countries and even within a country is made. It is concluded that community psychiatry should become an alternative to be followed in the treatment of psychiatric patients in the next years, and that's why its practical implementation should be a goal for current psychiatry.

Keywords : COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY; REHABILITATION.

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