UTILIZATION OF FAMILY APPROACH’S TOOLS TO ANALYSIS A FAMILY’S CASE

Introduction and Aim: The Family Health Strategy is a model of organization of Primary’s Health Attention, which objective is establish the family as the center of national health’s politic, since it is essential to know the reality of family’s core for planning efficient strategies of health’s actions. Thus, the family‘s work tools help the health professionals to understand the individuals and their relationships with the community. Describe the application of family‘s work tools in the study of a case Method: The study was realized through home visits to a family that lives in a community of Fortaleza, Ceará. Through the visits, informations about the dynamics and funcionality levels of the family were obtained, as also the relationship between the family and the community and the life’s cycle that they are. To analyze the data, APGAR, Ecomapa, Genogram and PRACTICE were used. Results and Conclusion: It was observed that the family had good affective relationships identified by Genogram, mainly, between the mom and the four kids. The genogram showed that every member of the family helped the brother with deficiency, except the father, which is the less involved. About the life’s cycle, the family was classified as with teenagers and the APGAR demonstrated as a highly functional family. Therefore, it was noticed that the family’s work tools helped on recognizing the emotional difficulties, financial and psychological alterations of this family, contributing to prepare actions that affect positively the family’s health quality, not only the biomedical aspect, but the psychosocial too.