With the purpose of reorganizing health attention practices on a new basis and of replacing the traditional health model, whose focus was typically on healing and on hospital-centered practices, the Family Health Program (FHP) was created by the Brazilian Health Ministry in 1988. The FHP is operationalized by multiprofessional teams in Basic Health Units (BHU). This article aims to analyze the unfolding of an intervention developed in the course of a training program carried out under the project entitled “Psychology and collective health: promoting health in the community” conducted at a BHU in Vitória, ES. After inserting ourselves into the BHU routine and context for a certain time, we developed a proposal for an interdisciplinary program designed for a group of obese, diabetic and hypertensive patients. Mechanisms which promote the exchange of experiences such as thematic workshops and tours were created. During the intervention, it was possible to observe the importance of interdisciplinary work to reach the proposed objectives. We had improvements and certain difficulties, and concluded that Psychology can effectively contribute for the promotion of health in the context of FHP.
Psychology; Brazilian National Health System; Interdisciplinarity; Health promotion
