The Effectiveness of the Psychoeducational Effective Parenting Program Application on Symptoms of Psychoactive Substance Use

“Step by step”: the development of a therapeutic game to assist in the treatment of drug use

“…This design indicated that the area of mental health has some practices [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] that can be tangibilized in therapeutic games. Through the power of materialization that design features 27 , the designer can create of artifacts for people's use 15,22,25,27 .…”

“…The contents to be addressed in the design of the game were based on definitions extracted from three sources: meetings with the mental health team throughout the process of development of the game 28 , interaction with drug users and their family members in CAPS 28 , and existent literature on psychoeducation [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] . To be included in the game, a certain content would have to be identified in the literature and/or in the meetings with the health team, and necessarily observed 28 in the interactions with patients and families.…”

“…Psychoeducation consists on explaining the functioning of drug use, considering the importance of having information about it to understand the problems and change behaviors [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] . Similarly, the debunking of some taboos and beliefs related to drug use assists in the recovery of people.…”