In view of its multidisciplinary nature, three interrelated aspects mark the mission of the Psychiatric Nursing and Human Sciences Department (DEPCH/ERP): a) generating and disseminating knowledge on Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health; b) enhancing the understanding of nursing and health as knowledge and action domains, inserted in specific historical and social contexts and located at the intersection between natural and human sciences; b) stimulating the integrated view of human beings, which covers their different dimensions and understand them in their relation with the context.
This Department aims to offer solid knowledge for the education of psychiatric and mental health nursing professionals at undergraduate and graduate level. The Department is a leader and national and international reference center in its area. To keep up this status, it periodically organizes national and international mental health events and specialization programs. Also, the Department closes agreements with higher education institutions from other countries and with Brazilian governmental entities. It founded the second graduated program at Master’s and later Ph.D. level in Brazil, in the field of Psychiatric Nursing, and consolidated its position in research in the same area.
The Department comprises 22 faculty members in the following Knowledge Areas: Health Sciences (Nurses, 13); Human Sciences (06); Social Sciences (01); Biological Sciences (01) and Exact Sciences (01), besides 06 Laboratory Specialists and the administrative team.
This Department aims to offer solid knowledge for the education of psychiatric and mental health nursing professionals at undergraduate and graduate level. The Department is a leader and national and international reference center in its area. To keep up this status, it periodically organizes national and international mental health events and specialization programs. Also, the Department closes agreements with higher education institutions from other countries and with Brazilian governmental entities. It founded the second graduated program at Master’s and later Ph.D. level in Brazil, in the field of Psychiatric Nursing, and consolidated its position in research in the same area.
The Department comprises 22 faculty members in the following Knowledge Areas: Health Sciences (Nurses, 13); Human Sciences (06); Social Sciences (01); Biological Sciences (01) and Exact Sciences (01), besides 06 Laboratory Specialists and the administrative team.