Introduction: Teamwork has been emphasized to enable the promotion of psychosocial rehabilitation of people with psychic disturbances. Objective: to identify how nurse team education happens in the Psychiatric and Mental Health areas. Methodology: qualitative study of descriptive-exploratory. 26 nurses were participants in this research, all of them from the psychiatry and mental health services chain. The data were collected by means of individual interviews, followed by an outline of orientating questions. For the data analysis, the ordination and classification of the data and the final analysis were applied. Results and discussion: the analyses indicated that nurses develop themselves for teamwork mostly in an experience-based way; some take extracurricular courses and do specific readings. Final considerations: there is a need for more investment during the nurses' training while they are undergraduates, in relation to team coordination, and this does not differ from the data found in the pertinent literature.
Mental Health; Nursing; Education in Health