This paper proposes a reflection on the challenges faced by a mental health staff to create a mental health emergency service outside the context of a psychiatric hospital. It emphasizes embracement as a clinic strategy to respond to psychic suffering and to overcome the hardship found by individuals and groups in at-risk situations, social disadvantages and mental suffering. The challenge proposed lies on the possibility to substitute an inpatient health model for a community and outpatient health care network.
Embracement; Emergency; Mental health
