Eye and see: the interdisciplinarity overcoming challenges of pathologizing

Abstract

The criticism of the reproduction of children pathologized is gaining strength through a growing movement, which tries to avoid that psychosocial issues are reduced to a biological process. It is known that the majority of referrals for psychological assessment originates in school, where teachers find themselves anguished at the search for answers to the difficulties presented by their students, be learning or behavioral order. This descriptive and bibliographical research have as objective to reflect about the high number of referrals for psychological assessment of the Department of Mental Health of Basic Attention of a small city, having the interdisciplinarity as a reference of a professional intervention. It is concluded from the study that there are many cases that psychopathology and psychosocial order issues are in a fine line, requiring careful evaluation, however many referrals have inconsistency. Many times, when the look is not extended to the context where the child is inserted, the results are generalizations and pseudo-diagnostics, reproducing the process of medicalization. It is evident that interdisciplinary work produces a network of attendance that prioritizes the care and communication between the services, it is shown how important resource for responsible practice of a integral care.