The Therapeutic Residential Services (TRS) has emerged as a key to the realization of the deinstitutionalization process and psychosocial rehabilitation. The objective was to investigate the perception of nursing professionals working in the TRS on the Psychiatric Reform, and your relationship with the technical and scientific training and professional practice. Descriptive study with a qualitative approach, being interviewed six nursing professionals working in TRS at Caicó/RN. The data collection was conducted between October and December 2009. The Psychiatric Reform was noticed as a complex movement that aims to modify the work in the field of psychiatry, and from it, the professional is "encouraged" to take a new position in relation to the patient, a more horizontal and humanized posture. This study contributed to a better understanding of the reality studied, regarding the change in the mental health network.
Nursing, Team; Professional Practice; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Psychiatric Nursing
