Between specialism and support: psychologists in Support Center for Family Health

Abstract

The institution of Núcleo de Apoio a Saúde da Família (NASF) at 2008 structured multiprofessional and interdisciplinary teams, in which psychologists are considered main professional. Models related to psychological actions are not defined, raising questions about implications about a work that is health caring as much as managing service. This study aims to clarify the connection between NASF's deployment process and the effective practice of psychologist inserted at the service, at two cities of Rio Grande do Norte (RN). It was used analysis of official documents and different semi-structured interviews to psychologists (3) and coordinators (2). Through a comparison analysis may be infered that the psychological practice reveals a traditional approach and reproduces practices from different institutions. Also, the differences of services deployment process set a way to revert that logic.