Rol del Trabajo Social en un centro especializado de tratamientos a personas con consumo problemático de alcohol y drogas en una comunidad terapéutica del cantón El Carmen, en el período 2022.

Abstract

The present investigation arises in order to know the role of the social worker in the therapeutic community "Camino Vivo" of the canton El Carmen, with drug addicts, in the period 2022. To work with this social group, a qualitative inductive methodology was developed, applying the interview technique to a total sample of 6 people, including patients, professionals and the social worker who works in the institution. Having as main results that the role of this professional is essential in this group of people, intervening from diagnosis to follow-up, including the patient's family and analyzing all environments that may have risk factors for this substance use. There is also a team of professionals who work together in the rehabilitation treatment of these people, and who from their specialty also approach each case in an integral way, such as the clinical psychologist, the doctor and the psychiatrist. It can be concluded that this field of drug addiction necessarily needs the role of the social worker in its treatments and outbreaks, which is why its great support is demonstrated according to the perspectives of the different social actors of this support center.