“…The fact that children and adolescents in psychological distress have belatedly entered the Brazilian public health agenda is partly explained by the belief that these subjects would not experience psychological illness and madness (Couto & Delgado, 2015). However, as even brought by this research (Class 1), this public brings the most diverse sufferings, linked to learning (inattention, delays in schooling), behavior (agitation, hyperactivity, aggressiveness), the most varied types of violence -including that self-provoked, the use of psychoactive substances, among others, also found to be prevalent in other studies (Nunes et al, 2019;Ribeiro & Miranda, 2019). And, if on the one hand, in some territories children and adolescents in distress seem to remain invisible, the results show us that in others there is a growing demand for interventions in SM for this public: "...…”