Abstract
This work comes from the researcher’s questions developed in her professional career, from the experience in Gestalt-Therapy (GT) and Multidisciplinary Residency in Family Health and Community. With theoretical and practical knowledge in both areas, proposes the construction of theoretical and conceptual bridges between them, with the objective of showing possible contributions that GT can offer to the work of the psychologist in the context of Family Health Strategy (FHS), as well as to its main work process tool, Extended Clinic (EC). It is qualitative research, with purposive sample of psychologists of the Residence Integrated Health with Emphasis on Health Family and Community, of the Public Health School of Ceará. With the execution of individual interviews, the empirical material was categorized in five themes: importance of the psychological approaches for the performance of the psychologist at FHS; views of man and world of the humanitarian approaches while guiding the performance of the psychologist at FHS; appreciation by psychologists of the way of life of subjects and their demands; intervention methods of the psychologist at FHS; and theoretical and practical connections. In summary, the results indicated that: GT has acceptance and use by the psychologists who work at FHS; and the approach’s main contribution to that scenario is the view of totality of the human being, since it is required of FHS and EC to work with an integrated view of a singular subject, which should be understood in a broad context. In conclusion, when the psychological approach has a view of man closer to the guidelines of FHS, and the psychologist can combine both formations in their practice, an assurance of qualified performance in this context is promoted.
Gestalt-Therapy; Family Health Strategy; Extended Clinic