THE WORK OF FAMILIES AND THE BURDEN ARISINGFROM CARING FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING FROMSEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS
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In psychiatry, therapeutic models have excluded family members from care management, restricting the person in distress. The aim of this essay was to describe the work developed with family members who bear the burden of caring for people in severe mental distress, carried out at the Department of Mental Health in Trieste since 1987. This program emerged from initiatives providing opportunities for information, participation in services, greater knowledge among family members, and effective mutual support programs, with the family actively involved in organizing the therapeutic project and in educational and informational programs. When the family is left alone, it faces the weight of responsibility in isolation, dominated by despair, shame, and loss of hope. Finally, the involvement of families in the work process with people in severe distress is relevant for the family members, the person, and the service, as an expanded form of mental health care.
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