Projeto Corpore: educação em saúde e prevenção aos transtornos alimentares

Abstract

The Corpore Project: a multiprofessional practice for the prevention of eating disorders, linked to the Laboratory of Studies in Psychotherapy, Phenomenology and Society - LAPFES, aims to provide an effective multidisciplinary service in the prevention of eating disorders in the community. His actions took place, first, at the UFC Clinical School of Psychology from March 2016 to July 2017, with individual and group visits by trainees and extensionists of psychology and volunteer nutritionists. In the second half of 2017, the activities were extended to the school context, seeking to work on the issue of self-image construction with adolescents from a state public school in the city of Fortaleza - CE. The project with this action in health for young people, a major risk group for the development of body image disorders, consolidates the relationship of the university with the general population, above all, offering a quality public service aimed at primary prevention and promotion of health.