Physical Education and psychosocial care: reflections about interventions in CAPS and other urban spaces

Abstract

This study aimed to identify and analyze the themes of body culture mobilized in the interventions of Physical Education professionals working in Psychosocial Care Cen-ters (CAPS) and understand their presence in urban spaces outside the CAPS. We collected data through semi-structured interviews with 18 Physical Education professionals, members of the eight CAPS teams in Goiânia (GO), Brazil. Data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. The results indicated that the interventions involve different themes. In the social imagination, the activities are instead related to the perspective of physical fitness development, and “sports” and “physical and gymnastic exer-cises” were the most reported. However, there is a scope for others that are less marked by the ex-pected physical fitness development.