Research and Publications

Critical Time Intervention-Brazil, 2010

This pilot study recruited 19 people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders served by the Psychosocial Service Centers (CAPS) in Rio de Janeiro to test the feasibility of implementing an adapted CTI for the Brazilian context. The problems of violence, drug use and unemployment in Rio’s favelas are concrete obstacles to continuity of mental health care.
Tavares Cavalcanti, M., Carvalho, M., Valencia, E., Magalhães Dahl, C., Mitkiewicz de Souza, F. (2011) Adaptation of Critical Time Intervention for use in Brazil and its implementation among users of psychosocial service centers (CAPS) in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 16(12):4635-4642.

Mitkiewicz de Souza, F., Carvalho, M.C., Valencia, E., Carpinteiro da Silva, T.F., Magalhães Dahl, C., Tavares Cavalcanti, M. (2012) Monitoring of patients within the schizophrenia spectrum: adaptation of intervention for transition periods (“Critical Time Intervention”) for the Brazilian context in psychosocial care centers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Cadernos Saúde Coletivo, 20(4): 427-435.