The significant personal nets as psychological instrument of intervention

Abstract

This article proposes a model for interventions in the networks of meaningful social relationships around a patient and describes its impact on the participants and on the psychological intervention process. The intention was to provide conditions so that all participants could be co-constructors of change possibilities in relationship to the perception of the problem that provoked the search for treatment. The clinical-qualitative method of "Grounded Theory" was used. The cases analyzed indicated the efficacy of the intervention with the families with psychiatric patients, in providing the network participants the possibility of finding their own potential for helping, for the psychotherapist in the responsibility distribution of the identified person care. The proposal of working with networks of meaningful social relationships does not exclude interventions from other theories. Rather, it increases the possibilities, both for the professionals understanding and for clinical psychology interventions in varied contexts.