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 healthdisease process in its complexity.
KEYWORDS
Pediatric obesity; Integrality in health; Patient-centered care