“Quando a estrada vai além do que se vê”: desafios e possibilidades de atuação do psicólogo escolar

Abstract

According to Resolution nº 5, of March 15, 2011, which provides for the curriculum of undergraduate courses in Psychology, “the specific supervised internship will include the development of practices that integrate skills, abilities and knowledge that define each emphasis proposed by the course project” (BRASIL, 2011, p. 7). The Regulation of internships in the Psychology course at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) proposes that internships can be linked to the emphases of Psychology and Educational Processes and Clinical Psychology and Health Promotion (UFRB, 2011). Initially, I opted for an emphasis on Clinical Psychology and Health Promotion. However, after three months of internship, for institutional reasons it was necessary for me to change to an emphasis on Psychology and Educational Processes. I joined a group that had already started its activities, and therefore I had to adapt, requiring some extra supervision, just with me and the advisor, and carrying out, individually, the readings that had already been discussed. Due to the school calendar, I was able to get in touch with the internship camp at the same time as the group. This work is a report of the experience I lived as a School Psychology intern, in a full-time school in Santo Antônio de Jesus - BA, during the months of February to July 2016. The Supervised Internship in School Psychology aims to: identify and to analyze the psychologist's possibilities of acting in the school context, aiming at the development and/or improvement of knowledge and skills necessary for the training process of the future professional in Psychology. In the first part, I address the theoretical foundation and the challenges and possibilities of acting in School Psychology, I contextualize the current teaching of integral/full-time education, then I characterize the internship field. In the second part, I present the activities carried out, the results and lessons learned in this context, essential for my training and future work.