The object of this study is the social representations built by family on taking care of the mental patient at home and it brings as its goals: to apprehend the social representations built by the family on taking care of the mental patient at home, to analyze the aspects that influence taking care of them. The collection were analyzed through Correspondence Factorial Analysis, by the software Tri-Deux-Mots. From these analysis apprehend the social representations built by the family on taking care of the mental patient at home. In the factorial analysis of correspondence, through the stimuli mental disease and taking care of a mental patient, words like attention, pain, get sick, aggression, unbalance.
Mental disorders; Family; Caregivers
