Abstract
to describe professionals' perceptions about the therapeutic effectiveness of group care. a descriptive, exploratory, qualitative research of the type of intervention carried out with 30 professionals from Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and Drugs in a municipality in center-westerns Brazil, from March to April 2019. Self-applicable instruments and round circles were used. The emerging data were submitted to content analysis. professionals perceive the benefits of group practices and relate them to some therapeutic factors in the group. It is evident the little formal and systematized knowledge about the group process elements. the therapeutic effectiveness of group processes is compromised due to absence of systematic records that allow to perceive the therapeutic progress of users, even though professionals perceive the emergence of therapeutic factors of the groups in the context of psychosocial care.
Highlights
In Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS - Centros de Atenção Psicossocial), most therapeutic offerings are developed in groups
In Conversation round (CR), we had participation of four professionals at CAPS 1, nine professionals at CAPS 2, eight professionals at CAPS 3 and eight professionals at CAPS 4, with a total of 29 participants, as a technician from one of the services was unable to participate at that time to provide assistance at CAPS welcoming
There can be a diversity of groups and manifest different therapeutic factors (TFs) depending on the forces impact the therapeutic mechanisms and the group, such as type of group, stage of therapy and individual differences between patients[24]
Summary
In Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS - Centros de Atenção Psicossocial), most therapeutic offerings are developed in groups. An American psychiatrist, has contributed immensely to the study of groups through the systematization of 11 therapeutic factors (TFs) that are fundamental to understand the process of change that occurs due to human interaction in the group. This knowledge allows coordinators to select the necessary strategies to maximize the group’s power in different scenarios. The TFs that form the basis of an effective approach to practice with groups are instillation of hope, universality,information sharing, altruism, corrective recap of the primary family group, development of socialization techniques, imitative behavior, interpersonal learning, group cohesion, catharsis and existential factors[3]
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