ABSTRACT
This article aims to analyze the practice of the clinic with adolescents in psychosocial care, in Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents. The Fourth Generation Evaluation was used as a theoretical-methodological approach, having as evaluative parameters the following aspects of health practices, from the perspective of psychosocial care: care in freedom, intersectoral, territorial, multi-professional and singular, seeking as results social inclusion, autonomy and citizenship. Interviews were conducted with service professionals and participant observation. The analysis was performed by Constant Comparative Method. The task of building a clinic that overcomes the knowledge and practices of traditional psychiatry is evident, which incorporates the adolescents’ context, and that does not have diagnosis as its central axis. There is essential to change the attention from the disease to the adolescent, considering their desires, relationships and the meanings attributed by them to possible perspectives and paths resulting from clinic’s knowledge. It is important to maintain the process of constant wondering regarding the psychosocial clinic with adolescents, its repercussion and its incorporation as a transitory and singular therapeutic possibility.
KEYWORDS:
Adolescent; Health evaluation; Community mental health services