This literature review study aimed to present the toolkit for working with families used by family health teams in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná, Brazil. Initially, the work with families is conceptualized. Its central purpose is based on the understanding of subjects integrated into their context and family dynamics, being possible to observe their daily relationship and interactions. In this way, beyond the collective care, even the individual clinical attention can be structured on wider bases, with more efficient interventions on the health-disease-care process. Then, the objectives and purposes of the use of the tools (for example, Genogram, the Life Cycle of the Families, the F.I.R.O. model and the P.R.A.C.T.I.C.E. model) by multiprofessional teams of the city were characterized. It was concluded that in Curitiba, the use of the toolkit is essential as a light health technology device, as it favors the workers' approach to the people's problems in the community, enabling the collection of narrative evidences and promoting the design of robust strategies for handling health actions and services .
Health Care; Family Health; Family Health Program
