Trabalhando com famílias no ciclo da drogadicção: uma proposta de intervenção nos sistemas familiares com membro dependente de drogas

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose an intervention in family systems with an addicted member. An intervention that may be applied by non-psychotherapist caretakers, i.e., substance dependence advisors, working in therapeutic communities, who will participate in this research. Therapeutic communities for substance addicts are important resources, described by the Brazilian National Anti-Drug Department, in the drug-fighting network, however, as most of the substance dependence services, they require interventions in the family level. Due to this need and the complexity of the phenomenon, substance dependence experts have oriented approaches in this scope. By means of a qualitative research, we will seek to investigate, among the caretakers involved in this research (former substance addicts recovered for at least one year), the functioning patterns of their family systems in the generational and transgenerational levels. We will seek to develop along with the participants the understanding of the relationship patterns in their original and current families, with the purpose of valuing the competences and rescuing the resilient aspects of these caretaker families systems. Therefore, our purpose is to create, together with these caretakers, an intervention instrument, easily applicable by non-psychotherapists working with families involved with the problems of substance addiction, to empower them to fight the drug-addiction cycle