PITIA, Ana Celeste de Araújo    SANTOS, Manoel Antônio dos. Therapeutic accompaniment as a strategy to contain mental suffering. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) []. 2006, 2, 2. ISSN 1806-6976.

This paper consists in a bibliographic review of scientific production in the area of Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA). The aim was to systematically assess the scientific production indexed in MedLine, PsycINFO and LILACS between 1977 and 2001, as well as books and theses existing at that time. Therefore, we used the keywords: therapeutic companion and acompañante terapéutico. We selected abstracts that attended to the inclusion criteria, whose publications were recovered in their full version. The results indicate that most articles addressed technical aspects of work at the TA clinic, indicated the desired profile for therapeutic accompaniment (ta) professionals.

: Therapeutic accompaniment; Mental health; Psychosocial rehabilitation.

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