Abstract
This descriptive retrospective study used medical records to characterize children and adolescents cared in a CAPSi during their tenth year of operation and to compare with an analogous study carried out in the first year of operation. Data were analyzed using SPSS and IRaMuTeQ. There was an increase of 51.85% in demand compared to the first year. There was an increase in female users, whose complaints concerned self-mutilation. However, the prevalence of male users remained, whose complaints concerned behavioral issues such as aggression and hyperactivity. In this study, we discuss the articulations between CAPSi and other services of the Psychosocial Care Network, especially regarding referrals. It also discusses medicalization without record of prognosis and the challenges of exercising the “expanded clinical” practice and the logic of psychosocial work, which opposes the exclusively biomedical paradigm, simplifying the phenomena of child development.
Keywords:
mental health; health services; child; teenager
