Many mental illnesses are recurrent and tend to be chronic, especially when therapy comes late or is limited to mitigating the symptoms. Primary care should offer patients and their families continuous accompaniment without renouncing the promotion of good health, prevention and early detection, which form part of its working philosophy.

Orientation of family therapy can therefore contribute a framework for analysis and intervention based on the planning of prevention and rehabilitation aims with a view to reinforcing the potential of individuals and family and social groups. The creation of a therapeutic context from a family perspective aims to produce significant and lasting changes.

In recent years, the development of collaboration programmes between the specialist mental health services and primary health care has offered the opportunity to strengthen community working and networking. The systemic relational model makes it possible to carry out structural and functional analysis of the organisations and their external relations, optimising possibilities for cooperation.

The teaching staff offer theoretical knowledge together with practical experience in joint visit activities, direct and indirect supervision of cases, clinical sessions and monographics as well as other activities shared with the primary health services and the specialist mental health and addictions services. Currently, the dynamics of participation in the course offers a rich and more varied content which is relevant to the daily life of the professional.

- Diploma in Nursing and other areas (social work, educators)
- Degree in Medicine and others (psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists)

- Complementary training for Family and Community Medicine
- Complementary training for Primary Health Care Nursing
- Complementary training for different medical and nursing specialisms: paediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, rheumatology, gerontology, neurology, oncology, nutrition, surgery, traumatology, medical emergencies, preventative medicine, bioethics, etc.
- Complementary training for general psychiatry, liaison psychiatry and community intervention.
- Complementary training for clinical psychology, especially applied in health environments.
- Complementary training for other professionals in health environments, social contexts, child care, educational psychology and legal psychology services.

• Iolanda Loire
• Phone: 934335004
• E-mail: iolanda.loire@uab.cat
• Web: http://www.fdrobert.uab.es/