Decolonial approaches to multidisciplinary supervision

A case extract

Abstract

This text offers a summary of experiences in multidisciplinary supervision with workers of public health and social care networks in Brazil. Based on the contributions of diagnostic reasoning offered by clinical knowledge and listening as a central element in a psychoanalytically oriented work, a space for supervision was proposed for workers in multiple areas of health and social care, seeking to think of ways of handling cases that go beyond institutional protocols and bureaucracies, and that from a decolonial perspective can propose transformative solutions to the reality of people assisted by public policies. The case of the child Theo is presented, based on the story of the educators of a service of care and strengthening of bonds for children from 3- to 14-years-old, in a peripheral and vulnerable territory of a big city in Brazil.