Familiarizing

Abstract

The Familiarizando [Familiarizing] Program is oriented to the employee's families served on the Drug Addiction Attention Program, or employees who have addicted people in their family unit, whose purpose is to provide information to the family on the social, psychological issues and the codependency, aiming their life autonomy and confrontation to the addicted person's disease. The Project provides individual and/or group reception, helping them in their difficulties on how to deal with the Drug Addiction issue; extending their support network, their strengthening, offering necessary allownaces in the sense of enabling them to live properly with the employee's disease and also taking care of the disease already installed in oneself, that is, the codependency. The receptions occur in two modules, being carried out by one Social Worker, one Psychologists and one Social Service Intern, and are carried out through a semi-structure interview, dynamics, workshops, lectures, conversation rounds and exchange of knowledge between members and professionals, though in no case the referral to therapy is disregarded, when the need is observed. Since its implementation, in August 2012, until the present moment, 38 familires were served and 189 meetings were held. We observed good receptivity, especially when it comes to the family, affective and social reconstruction's proposal. For such, it is necessary a consistent and affective family participation, in which it must know to act in an assertive way, with that one who finds oneself in recovery process.