Psychology as a health profession: report of a process of curriculum (re) formulation Psicología como profesión de la salud: informe de un proceso de (re)formulación de planes de estudios

Abstract

This article describes the dialogic process of constitution of a new manner for the curriculum made on the Psychology Major from Escola Baiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública. In theory the curriculum is treated as a political field to product subjectivities, the Psychology as a Health profession and the concept of competence defined by González Maura (Cuban, 2000), involving the specific dimension to do Psychology, united to the personal, attitudinal and motivational dimensions. That idea is based on an experience passage that presents an interpretation of the DCN’s, which highlights subjectivity as central on Psychology formation, especially for the progress of: autonomy, critical capacity and commitment with social values. The result of the process was a Showpiece curriculum, divided in modules, starting from the Thematic Axis, using the interdisciplinary practices and active methodologies, structured as opened systems to contemplate differences and diversity in constant movement between construction and deconstruction. These elements are based on a docent collective working culture, by teachers and students, as important part of the story, by the link between the job market and the set of individual subjectivities. Those changes connect the academic formation in Psychology with the development of people, overtaking the perspective of construction of a Technicistic occupational identity.