Coordinator: Maria Tavares Cavalcanti
Email: mariatavarescavalvanti@gmail.com
The Laboratory for the Evaluation of Services and Quality of Life in Mental Health (LAPSO): created in 1994 by a multicenter study by the WHO to validate a satisfaction questionnaire for users, family members and technicians with mental health services, develops projects to evaluate mental health. mental health services. It seeks to build participatory methodologies (formative assessment) and establish quality assistance parameters for clinical practice in mental health. In 2005, he was selected in the SUS FAPERJ public notice to carry out the evaluation of CAPS in the city of Rio de Janeiro in terms of their
integration with the health and social support network. It developed, with the Center for Public Policies for Mental Health of the IPUB (NUPPSAM), a survey of survey and mapping of children’s care services in the area of health, social and legal assistance in Brazil. This research was carried out in partnership with
Columbia University in New York and funded by the National Health Fund. From 2000 to 2010, LAPSO carried out research on people with major mental illness (schizophrenia and mood disorders) living on the streets. At that time, an assistance, research and teaching program was created in this area in partnership with the Health Department of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2006, Lapso has developed partnerships with the Center for Research on Homeless People with Mental Disorders in New York, coordinated by Prof. Ezra Susser of Columbia University for funding and joint research.
In December 2008, he was selected in the CNPq/MS call for proposals for mental health research in a project with Columbia University in NY to adapt to the Brazilian reality an Intervention for Periods of Transition (Critical Time Intervention) that was created by researchers from the Columbia University to
keep critically ill patients in treatment in the community. In 2011, he was selected to participate in the HUB for Latin America, one of the NIMH-funded networks for the development of mental health research. This HUB was presented by the University of Columbia/NY and the University of Chile, the University of Córdoba and the Borda Hospital in Buenos Aires participate. The network was named RedeAmericas and carried out an intervention – the CTI- TS (Critical Time Intervention – Task Shifting) – between 2011 and 2016. This intervention was a double-blind randomized study with patients who were
starting their treatment in three centers of psychosocial care (CAPS) in the city of Rio de Janeiro.