Social practices with children and adolescents: the impact of the guardian council

The social practices constitute an important field of reflection and research within Latin American communitarian Psychology. The social practices with children and adolescents comprehend manly the families and educational institutions, health institutions and others. This article presents a research conducted with the purpose of verifying the impact produced by the action of the guardian council in the community on the family and institutional practices with children and adolescents. A raising of service statistics of the guardian council of a middle-west district of the State of Santa Catarina was done from 2000 to 2003 (four years). Some interviews were also made with professionals from different areas that frequently interact with the council to verify their opinions on it (the council itself). The results indicated a bigger impact on family social practices and on institutional social health practices. The impact on institutional educational and work practices is not relevant.

Social practices; Guardian council; Community