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PREVENTION TO CRIME RELAPSING
Dear friends:
This association adressed a paper whose brief is below mentioned, on the XXIV Brazilian Conference on Psychiatry (Congresso Brasileiro de Psiquiatria) to be held in Curitiba, in 25-28th October this year (Conference organized by the Brazilian Association on Psychiatry).
This paper had the very precious collaboration of two persons, the Social Assistant and 2nd Secretary of our Association, Rosangela Maria Pereira and the Psychology Graduate, Regina Cleia Rogerio Lopes-Machado, my beloved and eternal collaborator.
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION MAKES PREVENTION TO THE CRIME RELAPSING
by LOPES-MACHADO, E.Z.; PEREIRA, R.M. and LOPES-MACHADO, R.C.R. - Adamantina’s Mental Health Association
Objetive: The object of this paper was to make an assessment on the possibility for a philanthropic society on mental health be able to make a prevention on the crime relapsing on convicts having varied psychiatric desorders.
Method: It was used monthly operating groups in 6 convicts who in 1997 won the freedom on the condition to attend regularly the Mental Health Association. The meeting (monthly) with the mental health team (one medical psychiatric, one social assistant, one psychology graduate), it was relesead the voucher confirming the presence (ou absence) of the subject, wich was delivered to the local Forum. The operating group had the target to focus on the therapy, by working out anxiety situations, draw up conflicts, in order to the subject be reinstated in the comunity.
Results: Three (3) out of six (6) subjects were reeducated and didn’t come back to the delinquency. The other three soon drop out the program, and returned to delinquency.
Conclusion: Although the small number of subjects, the prevention to crime relapsing program, in test about 9 years, using operating groups in convicts, can show that apparently in the chosen group of six people, was effective in 50% of the cases, which is a great score in Psychiatry.
My friends, that is all for today.
My love and Hugs to all of you.
ADAMANTINA, SÃO PAULO, May, 28, 2006.
Eleomar Ziglia Lopes-Machado,
President
