Profile and main complaints of children and adolescents seeking care at neapsi - center for studies and psychological care at centro universitário do norte paulista – unorp

There is a growing concern of mental health services related to clinical - school and educational institutions in the pursuit of the characterization of their clientele, to better direct their care arrangements. This article presents a study in NEAPSI - Study and Psychological Service of the University Center North Paulista - UNORP, featuring the clientele who sought psychological treatment in clinical- school in 2009-2014 through retrospective documentary methodology, query the hospital records and clinical screening. 823 records between active (still in service) and archive were analyzed until the date of July 18 of this year. In this way, it will be possible to continuously improve intervention strategies in the school clinic. This research had as objective the survey about the complaints that the clients in the clinical-school in the NEAPSI - Nucleus of Studies and Psychological Attention of the University Center of the North Paulista - UNORP present when seeking care, as well as the sociodemographic data, referral and resolution of the cases. This article presents and discusses the results collected on children and adolescents up to 17 years of age. The work allowed to identify the most frequent complaints in the search for the psychological assistance in NEAPSI. The main demand identified in the case of patients up to 17 years old was behavioral and learning. It can be inferred that the majority of the studied population suffers from problems related to bad behavior, agitation, excessive nervousness, learning problems and rebelliousness.