This paper examines the meanings constructed around adolescence, with their implications for the practices of physicians and nurses working within the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in a municipality in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The analysis was based on interviews and showed that immobility regarding collective actions was reinforced by predominance of a natural, universal and pathological view that positioned adolescence at a place not within the work routine of family health teams. For this reason, there is a need to rethink the conceptualizations, starting from the position that these professionals occupy in the labor market.
Adolescence; Family Health; Sociohistorical psychology; Human resources formation