The therapeutic workshops allow the possibility of projection of internal / external conflicts through artistic activities, highlighting the creative, imaginative and expressive potential of the user. We aimed to identify the families' perception of the therapeutic workshops undertaken. The research descriptive, with qualitative design, developed in the Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) from Natal/RN between August and September 2007. We interviewed 28 families who regularly attended services. Family members emphasized the positive impact of CAPS in the course of their treatment and life, in improving family harmony. On the therapeutic workshops, were identified failures and contradictions, exposing and pointing ways to overcome them. They realize the opportunities for participation in CAPS as important ways of monitoring their family user, in addition to mutual growth. The therapeutic workshops represent an important instrument of socialization and integration in individual groups, while it proposes working, acting and collective thinking, conferred by an inherent logic of the psychosocial paradigm.
Art Therapy; Mental Health Services; Family; Psychiatric Nursing; Substance-Related Disorders