The understanding of the format of the Family Intervention mentioned by the clinical trials controlled in the condition schizophrenia it was the focus of our investigation here told. We proceeded to the one systematic search in MedLine and we elaborated for the understanding of the theoretical foundation of the described practices to evaluate the clinical heterogeneity of the interventions that are object of study of the trials that we rescued. We described a model denominated "pragmatic", that presents fragments of techniques, without base beginnings or derived techniques of theories; another model whose emphasis of the work is in the change comportamental; and finally a model cognitive comportamental, that privileges the cognitive approach. We make considerations on the concepts of Expressed Emotion (EE) and Family Burden, underlying to the models comportamental and cognitive comportamental in the Family Intervention for Bearers of Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia; Family Intervention; Family Burden; Technological Assessment; Outpatients Care Mental Health