Abstract

CAMPOS, Eugenio Paes. Health team: helpers under tension. Epistemo-somática [online]. 2006, vol.3, n.2, pp. 195-222. ISSN 1980-2005.

This paper aims to analyze the experience of a health team whose functioning brought them to provide help for themselves. The team was inserted in a program to help people with high blood pressure. This program had been structured based on the concept of social support, centered in the gathering of professionals from several knowledge fields and in forming groups of patients - the support groups. This was achieved by means of describing the program’s structuring and analyzing the team’s dynamics from the interviews performed with nine of its professionals, focusing on how they interacted. Based on those interviews, it was sought to show similarities between what happened there and dynamics described by Winnicott regarding the holding and the continuity throughout their adult lives. The conclusion is that a health team may help themselves, as long as there is, within the team itself, an interaction dynamic similar to the one lived through a good holding since its early development.

Keywords : Helpers; Health team; Holding; Social support; Stress.

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