Conte M, Barcellos BT, Siqueira SD, Mayer MR; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 1141 (abstract no. 60765).
Praca das Nacoes Unidas, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
PROBLEM: The Harm Reduction Projects are very recent, imposing in this way to each Country or State to construct their peculiar form for developing, adjusted for their local reality. Because these project approaches the use of illegal drugs, frequently produce some repercussion in different social segments: police, religious, domestic and others. These repercussions are expressed by resistance and have direct consequence above the team that develop this project. In Porto Alegre (State of Rio Grande do Sul), in the south of Brazil, the project began in 1996 and the project's team are composed by a coordinator, a psychologist supervisor, a psychologist assistant of coordination, ten monitors and some spontaneous community agents. PROGRAM: Despite the necessities that are coming, some types of supervision are created: a) for the project's ambit, through exern advise; b) for the coordination's ambit, through the supervision by a psychologist; c) by the field of activity, through the coordinator's supervision among the monitors; d) for the team activities through the supervision of the psychologist assistant of the coordinator, including the monitor's relationship during the work; e) for the community agents' ambit through own monitors among the community. RESULTS: The team is more integrated if they know about the limits and the largeness of their functions. This reflects work's efficacy, at the attendance, at the coordination, at the supervision of monitors and agents. DISCUSSION: The supervision, made through different ambits, promote a better work integration and reaches more efficiently the project's target.
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Keywords:
- Brazil
- organization & administration
- therapy
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UI: 102232713
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