[Quality and conditions of the collaboration with the families viewed by the personnel working with psychiatric and traumatic brain injury clients].

This paper describes the point of view of professionals working with traumatic brain injury (TBI) clients or people with schizophrenic disorders towards their collaboration with clients' families. Four hundred and thirty professionals from 3 different regions in the province of Quebec took part in the study. They were recruited from psychiatric and general hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres. The results of the study point up that conditions for collaboration with families are better for respondents working with TBI clients than for respondents in the psychiatric sector. Furthermore, the results showed that respondents working with TBI clients are significantly more satisfied with their working conditions and the services they deliver and perceive a higher degree of collaboration with families than mental health workers. Another finding of the study is that personnel intervening in an interdisciplinary team reported a higher degree of collaboration with families than respondents working in a multidisciplinary team setting or individually. In the same vein, respondents who received training regarding intervention with families during their practice or during their academic training reported a higher degree of collaboration with their clients' families.