The Program Saúde da Família (Health in the Family) was selected as the object of the present study because it is a social intervention project that aims to promote social changes directed to increasing the community's autonomy concerning the solution of health problems in the territory. The acquired material within interviews with these professionals was analyzed through categories grouped in two thematic blocks: work conception - the ones that refer to the activities, and the fellow ones - where are brought together the ideas about the involved people. The contents analyzed reveals that the program doesn't reach the foreseen changes. The territory concept is incipient, the participation is precarious and the illnesses are maintained in privileged place. The population's people are refereed in a collection characterized by lacks, absences and needs, in many cases, are identified as the interviewed people themselves. The help mobilize the actions; it is the axle from which the actors understand his acting itself.
Health in the Family; Social intervention; Psychosocial study