Integrative Community Therapy and its benefits for primary care: an integrative review

Paula Frassinetti Oliveira Cezário,Ankilma Do Nascimento Andrade Feitosa,Nadja Gonçalves Almeida,Jesana Sá Damasceno Moraes,Saskia Carolino De Abreu Andrade Moreira,Anna Emíllia De Oliveira Maciel Freitas,Gerlane Cristinne Bertino Véras,Maura Vanessa Silva Sobreira,Franscisca Karla Esmeraldo Neves,Arielle Wignna Brasil Abrantes,Petrônio Oliveira Cezário ,Thiago Lívio Barbosa Pereira ,Olga Feitosa Braga Teixeira ,Laryssa Lins De Araújo ,Edjane De Sousa Andrade

doi:10.3823/1866

Abstract

Introduction: Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) is presented as an important support tool for improving health in primary care. Objective: describing how it is being implemented in the ICT of the Family Health Strategy. Method: it was decided to carry out an integrative review, using the descriptors Community Therapy, Family Health, bond, Communitarian Therapy, Family Health, bond, Communitarian Therapy, Family Health, link; the databases consulted were LILACS, SciELO and PubMED, from 2009 to 2014. Results: the findings demonstrate that from the understanding of the importance of working with the theme of the family health team, the service is more spontaneous and rewarding, resulting in strengthening the bond between everyone involved in this process. Conclusion: studies show that the ICT, when applied in primary care, tends to be a terminating method, as a result of this could be used for promotion, prevention and rehabilitation. In addition, ICT promotes the strengthening of relations between professionals, users and community.

Highlights

Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) is presented as an important support tool for improving health in primary care
The instrument used by the group facilitates and proposes measures for the construction of solidarity networks because corroborate precisely with the five themes proposed; these are: Systems Thinking, Communication Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy and concept of Resilience
The guiding question of the study was: How is being implemented Integrative Community Therapy in the Family Health Strategy? 2nd) Criteria for sample selection. on March 7th, 2015, there was carried out the search of publications through research in databases of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Medical Published - service of the US National Library of Medicine (PubMED)

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Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) is presented as an important support tool for improving health in primary care. The Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) emerged in the mid-1990s, through the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Ceará, with the methodology creating interpersonal and intercommunity meetings, which favored experiences of sharing knowledge, experiences and later, promoted the creation of supportive links between the members of the group [1]. The instrument used by the group facilitates and proposes measures for the construction of solidarity networks because corroborate precisely with the five themes proposed; these are: Systems Thinking, Communication Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy and concept of Resilience. The inclusion of ICT in healthcare is becoming more popular through different social actors, such as professionals from various areas, managers, users, family and community, which help to add and complement actions

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