Voltando para casa : a experiência do acolhimento institucional e os impactos na família.

Abstract

It is understood that it is in the family room which subjectivities are built and rebuilt. Recognized as primary network support, care and protection, the family occupies a central role in society. If this system can't ensure such care, is responsability of the State guarantee it through the application of protective measures, such as Institutional Care. As this is an exceptional and temporary measure, it has as objective the child's return home to face the changes in the family context that will enable their proper reintegration. Therefore, this study aimed to rescue these family experiences, trying to understand the meanings attributed by families who had institutionalized children about the experience of the Institutional Care and the impacts of return produced in this context. From a qualitative study and with the use of semi-structured interviews, were interviewed five families with Institutional Care history of children who, after the measure, returned to the original context. Data were analyzed from the content analysis proposed by Bardin and subsequently categorized. The results show that the Institutional Care experience was portrayed by families as positive and as a possibility of overcoming, once produced an awareness of the performance of parental roles. The child's family reinsertion was perceived by families as a time permeated by changes in the system, reflected mainly in the relationships between the members and the son reinserted. Thus, the possibility of returning the child to the home was portrayed as a new opportunity for the family to play their roles. It is understood the importance of further studies to consider the involvement of the family in the institutional context.