Serviço social em comunidades terapêuticas e influência da religião no tratamento da dependência química

Abstract

This research approaches Social Work, as a secular profession, working in therapeutic communities for the treatment of chemical dependence and how religion influences the treatment offered in these spaces. On that, the researcher tried to answer how religion is manifested in treatment by therapeutic communities accredited to the Rede Abraço Program, a government program in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The hypothesis is that therapeutic communities use a hybrid model of therapeutic resources, partly based on science and partly on religious therapeutic resources, so that there is an influence of religion in the treatment offered to the person attended by these institutions. Its general objective was to propose an intervention plan for the Social Worker, inserted in these spaces, which guarantees the service follows the professional ethical-political project and assist in carrying out activities that stimulate the spirituality of the attended individual, without being linked to a particular religious context. Therefore, it is necessary to present the history of Social Work in Brazil from the religious context; show the therapeutic community for the treatment of chemical dependence as a field of work for the social worker and observe how religion is applied within therapeutic communities. The research used the theoretical fields of Sociology of Religion and Psychology of Religion to present the concepts of religion and spirituality that underlie the debate; uses the book “Compêndio de ciência da religião” as a theoretical source to reference the area, as well as researchers in the field of Social Work, such as Marilda Vilela Iamamoto and Raul de Carvalho. The researcher also carried out ethnographic research in the observation of the manifestation of religion in therapeutic communities. The research results indicate that, even linked to a government program and that, therefore, they must avoid religious proselytism, the therapeutic communities accredited to the Rede Abraço Program emphasize religion in the treatment offered to chemical dependents.