The path of the occupational therapy of the psychiatry to the new institutions and strategies of promotion of the mental health

Abstract

The path of the occupational therapy in mental health can be seen in parallel to the constitution, crisis and transformations of the psychiatríc attendance. Now, it is in the context of the process of the psychiatric reform and of the propositions of the deinstitutionalization that we located the displacements and present challenges in the practices of the occupational therapy in mental health, that has result in significant changes in the intervention model, in your propositions and objectives.