Abstract
After the approval of the Psychiatric Reform, Health actions aim at encouraging the autonomy and the central role of users, based on the whole view of the subject, taking into account the different contexts and social groups he or she is part of, including the family group. This change of paradigm has contributed to the discarding of the individual perspective in the assistance to mental health and has amplified the vision and the actions of the professionals in relation to the family groups. The problems brought to light by different users started being understood from a psychosocial perspective, on which interpersonal and family relations are focused. In this context, this article gives account of a particular experience with a group of users of a Center of Psychosocial Attention (CAPS III) in the city of Campina Grande -Paraíba, based on Social Community Psychology. The psychosocial interventions aimed at promoting the central role of users and their co-responsibility in the family processes. Weekly workshops were held about themes connected with family issues. The conclusion reached was that the concept of the romantic, idealized family still prevails among these users’ imaginary. Family conflicts were emphasized as well as the importance of the dialogue, and the reflection and additional strategies to solve the problems, and this denotes more participative and critical attitudes. This experience confirmed the relevance of the actions in the services of attention to mental health, focused both on the family and on the user, paying attention to the deconstruction of the models of victimization and culpability.
Psycosocial Intervention; Psychiatric Reform; Family; Social Communitary Psychology