Tatiana Fernandes Carpinteiro da Silva, Giovanni Lovisi
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva (IESC)
Maria Tavares Cavalcanti, Catarina Dahl
UFRJ, Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPUB).
Sara Conover, Eliecer Valencia, Ezra Susser
Columbia University, Newman School of Public Health, New York, USA.
Abstract:
Since the mental health care in Latin America is undergoing a huge transformation with the change of hospital-based care for community assistance, has become clear that is essential the adequacy of these patients in society, being fundamental to the implementation of psychosocial interventions that benefit this population and their families, meeting their needs in a way adapted to the current economic and social reality in Latin America. Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting (CTI-TS) is a psychosocial intervention designed to address a fundamental gap in the services offered by mental health clinics in Latin America. It is a time-limited, 9-month long intervention, provided at the critical time when a person is first offered services at a mental health clinic.
Keywords:Task Shifting ,Community Mental Health Workers ,mental disorder