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Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is a time-limited mental health intervention offered to people with mental disorders during critical/transition periods. This study assesses the impact of CTI-BR on social performance and quality of life within a population in the process of deinstitutionalization, after long-term hospitalization in a psychiatric institution. The study population was split into two groups, one of which received CTI plus the regular care. Results showed no advantage of the intervention compared to the regular programs provided by the institution. When study participants are analyzed as a group, we found positive improvement regarding their social functioning and self-perception of their mental-health. Results show that it is possible for elderly patients discharged from long-term psychiatric care to live in residential facilities in the community, supervised by clinical teams.

Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is a time-limited mental health intervention offered to people with mental disorders during critical/transition periods. This study assesses the impact of CTIBR on social performance and quality of life within a population in the process of deinstitutionalization, after long-term hospitalization in a psychiatric institution. The study population was split into two groups, one of which received CTI plus the regular care. Results showed no advantage of the intervention compared to the regular programs provided by the institution. When study participants are analyzed as a group, we found positive improvement regarding their social functioning and self-perception of their mental-health. Results show that it is possible for elderly patients discharged from longterm psychiatric care to live in residential facilities in the community, supervised by clinical teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mad man tied to the chestnut tree in One Hundred Years of Solitude can be seen as a metaphor of the ties that institutionalization can engender. What can be done to make a therapeutic residence perform the role of a transitory space for patients, since there they are not tied down as they would be in a psychiatric institution? Based on Winnicott's concepts we tried to answer this question by making a connection between the facilitating environment and the therapeutic residence environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that numerous hospital institutions are now operating under the logic of deinstitutionalization, many patients continue to live in them. Therapeutic residences have become a leading strategy in the psychiatric reform. A case study on the challenges faced in the transition from hospitalization to residential care serves as the point of departure, from there I discuss the need for clinical listening that is conducive to the creation of a subjective space that will allow for the circulation between one situation and the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]