This paper discusses the results of a pilot study conducted between January and June 2012 in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, at UFRJ. This is an exploratory study, through documentary analysis, which tracked complaints related to schooling within the universe of triage cases in the said period. Therefore, it had the goal of mapping school complaints that were recorded at the front door of a university psychiatry service. It presents the main complaints made by schools on mental health focused on childhood and adolescence from 285 triage records, as well as age and gender analyses based on the entry into the service. It also discusses how the school complaints are described from six triage reports pointing to the importance of the contradictory standout in the original complaint. It concludes that about one third of those seeking this service of childhood and adolescence psychiatry presents initial complaints involving schooling, then learning difficulty and agitation were prevalent.
childhood; adolescence; mental health; school complaints
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