Representations of professional practices in home care: between old and new references.

Abstract

Home care (HC) is recent in Brazil the way it is practiced today. The foundations of the psychosocial model were presented to healthcare professionals during a training course. Situations experienced by these professional during home care were recorded in the beginning of the course, and presented again at the end of the course. This article aims at discussing theses experiences. It was found that it was difficult for the professionals that attended the course to identify problems related to human relationships and their conflicts, which make up the tissue of family dynamics.