‘We don’t want only food’: integrality in the interprofessional performance in the care of childhood obesity

Abstract

The article presents a socioanthropological analysis of an interprofessional care practice, of psychology and  nutrition, aimed at obese children and adolescents  and their families, almost always mothers, assisted in a public outpatient clinic of the Rio de Janeiro State  University (UERJ). Health education and integrality of  care are concepts ‘put into practice’, articulating play  as a therapeutic tool and art as a field for experiences  and expression of singularities. The body and  corporeality are approached in their biopolitical dimensions, but also in their sensitive and symbolic  ones, in the search to understand childhood obesity  and its nuances. In the analyses, health is no longer  measured from its normative character, taking the  health-disease process in its complexity.