Abordagem interdisciplinar do adolescente obeso

Abstract

Obesity is a phenomenon in universal ascent. In infants and adolescents is in particular worrying by the risk of the early development of typical illnesses of the adult and by the possibility of permanence of the chart in the adult life. The interdisciplinary approach of the obese adolescent is more adequate form of handling since considers to complex factors involved, such as the evolution of the psychological trial of the individual, the personal history, the affectionate relations experienced to the long one of the development, the relative difficulties to a period of biological and psychological transformations in a context of social and economical characteristic of the contemporary society. Strategies of adequate service for this age group are fundamental for satisfactory evolution of the handling, among the indivual and right to secrecy of information. Therefore, the approach exclusively in the dietetic change and that ignore the complexity and the singularity involved can aggravate the clinical chart. Like this, in the interdisciplinary approach the objective is not going to treat the obesity of the adolescent, but treat the obese adolescent.