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LEMES, Carina Belomé  e  ONDERE NETO, Jorge. Applying psychoeducation in health. Temas psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.1, pp. 17-28. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2017.1-02.

Psychoeducation is an approach that relates psychological and pedagogical tools having as its objective the teaching directioned to patients and caregiver about physical and/or psychic pathology and its treatment as well. Thus, it is possible to develop a prevention and awareness work in health. The present work has as its aim to investigate the usage of psychoeducationin the area of health relating its application in mental and physical illnesses and its involvement in the area as well. The method consists of a systematic review of literature whose keyword is "psycho education", and its results were found in the following data basis: LILACS (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde), PePSIC (Periódicos Eletrônicos de Psicologia) and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online). Totalizing 59 articles, only 29 were used. It is possible to conclude that psycho education can be used for both psychological disorders and organic illnesses, as in 85% and 15% of the articles respectively. It can be applied for both caregivers (30% of the studies) and patients (45% of the studies). Its technique can be practiced in the following contexts: palliative care, chronic diseases, group therapy, and public health. From the results and the discussion it is possible to notice that psycho education is a technique that contains applications in many health areas, covering psychological disorders and organic illnesses.

Palavras-chave : Psychoeducation; intervention; health.

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