The investigation has tried to comprehend the integrality notion of the Adolescent and Child Social Protection, in the city of Suzano, wich an important part of social and health agent´s practice forms from. For that, an empiric exploration of those actors´ discursive elements was conducted. The experiences collected in the field have allowed the understanding and reflexion of the notion of integrality in the Public Health Insurance knowledge. The research objectives were, as a priority, to

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... acterize and put the integrality place inside that protection net in doubt; describing the experiences and reflecting over the integral attention at the action articulation inside the service net. The phenomenology was chosen as a methodological reference, setting itself up as two moments articulated between themselves: participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The subjects of the research were the Conselho Municipal de Defesa dos Direitos da Criança e Adolescente members, as articulators of the adolescent and child care city policy. The research was able to comprehend the integrality notion as idea/reference, concept which has emerged from the social agent searched and from which derives its actions in the adolescent health field, mainly on what concerns a psychosocial care.