This bibliographic study attempted to identify the references concerning multi-care and interdisciplinary care in mental health from studies concerning desinstitucionalization and the family, as well as discover the categories that emerge from within the analysis. Forty-one, four doctoral dissertations in nursing, ten master's thesis's in nursing, two doctoral dissertations in medicine, and twenty-five articles published in national periodicals of nursing and/or medicine. The data analyzed according to the Bardin technique. Three categories were determined: criticism to the care offered by professionals; the need to prepare professional who will care for the mentally disturbed; and the importance of the professional as an agent of desinstitutionalization and social reinsertion of someone with a mental disturbance. Interdisciplinary work in mental health is one presuppositions for desinstitutionalization to be effective; however, as this study demonstrates, professionals face great challenges in developing this type of work.
Desinstitutionalization; Family; Mental desorders