HEALTH AND SCHOOL COMPLAINT: RECORDS OF CONSERV(ACTION) IN THE CONDUCT OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

Abstract

This article exposes the theme of the conduct of psychology professionals in the field of health, in view of school demands. It results from a Master's research, mainly aimed to, based on Historical-Cultural Psychology, identify how contemporary Psychology practices in health may explain the professionals’ understanding about the referrals and the role of the school in building subjectivity. To this end, medical records of children and adolescents of four to seventeen years old were analyzed. Participants had been referred due to school complaint to two public healthcare services in a small municipality in São Paulo, in the biennium 2014-2015, and participated in interviews with the responsible psychologists in the services. The results indicated that the psychologist's activity when receiving the school demand has changed a little in relation to the conducts being adopted in the country since the 1990s. The practices adopted mainly consist in individual or group clinical care, disregarding the school environment. The profile of the children referred is also maintained and, in the context of psychological science applied to health, there is a distancing regarding the knowledge of the implications of school education on human learning and development, as well as the importance of accessing human cultural assets. This could be decisive for the circumstances and the quality of the humanization process.