Praxis in Formation of the Psichologist to Work in Health Care

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges for the maintenance and continuity of the Psychiatric Reform in Brazil is the training of human resources. The curricular guidelines of courses in the health area, including psychology, point to the articulation between teaching-research-extension and to the insertion of students in health services from the first periods of the courses. In the specific case of the training of psychologists to work in the field of mental health, debates on the insertion in an interdisciplinary team and the articulation between clinical and social aspects, which characterize the extended general practice, are fundamental. Thus, the professional performance is thought from a concrete subject in a given situation. Education through work is thought of as a pedagogical strategy for articulating theory and practice. Taking these initial arguments into account and having as a parameter the notions of dialogicity, criticality and praxis, emphasized in the work of Paulo Freire, we will present the case study of the therapeutic accompaniment group (TA) of a research center at a federal university. The TA group developed activities from 2014 to 2019, serving as a pedagogical tool for training psychology students to work in the field of mental health.