Psychosocial approach to welcoming therapeutic communities

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the welcoming process of Therapeutic Communities (TCs) and their relevance to health promotion. Methods: Data were collected in loco from 3 (three) TCs in the State of Pernambuco, using a field diary instrument and unstructured interviews with the workers. Results: Evidence was found to the need to (re)create host programs in TCs that have as orientation the ethics of the psychosocial approach as a strategy for health promotion. After a historical-epistemological update of a CT paradigm, a critical reflection that could present the meaning of welcoming in contrapoint to the TCs of approach based on self-discipline and self-control, and a proposition of the synergy of the reception in the CT of psychosocial approach with health promotion, it was noticed that in the TCs studied the psychosocial approach has been manifested through the practice of reception and care in order to characterize them or make them health promotion equipment. Final considerations: The TCs investigated with the psychosocial approach act by coping with the conditions of inequalities and social exclusion by making a commitment to the National Health Promotion Policy, aiming to allow as a result a psychosocial repositioning of people in illness due to harmful drug use.