Abstract

CAMPOS, Bruna Gonçalves; TOLEDO, Tatiana Bruno de  and  FARIA, Nilton Júlio de. Gestalt clinic for children and attention to basic health integrality. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2011, vol.17, n.1, pp. 23-29. ISSN 1809-6867.

The article is about the experience of a group of children in a basic health care general practice in Campinas-SP. The activities had as theoretical-methodological reference the gestalt-therapy and theoretical production around the public health. Considering the vast request for treatment from the schools and families, it was given preference to work in groups in order to look on the health conception proposed by the public health policy; so the engagement includes handling playful activities and the exercise of the expanded general practice. Playful activities facilitate the access to comprehension of the assigned meanings to their ways of living life, in order to allow children to try and reproduce daily routine situations in a helpful environment which enables creative adjustment exercises. The importance of this procedure is highlighted so that the presentification of the feelings and the expansion of awareness occur. The expanded clinic made possible a more broad comprehension of the children reality and how it contributed to the constitution of the subjectivity. Thus, important elements are presented so that the therapeutic process with children happens focusing on the attention to health integrality.

Keywords : Public health; Integrality; Children’s psychotherapy; Gestalt therapy; Health basic attention.

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