Ambulatory psychological care in general hospital: reflections of a psychology intern

• Autor(a) principal: Homercher, Bibiana Massem
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Felipe Schroeder de, Guazina, Félix Miguel Nascimento
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/psicorevista/article/view/51526
• topic: Ambulatório; Saúde Mental; Psicologia; Ambulatorio; Salud Mental; Psicología; Ambulatory; Mental health; Psychology

This paper describes a Psychology curricular internship experience at a specialty clinic managed by the Brazilian Public Health System. The goal of this paper is to discuss the practice of curricular internship required by the curricular emphasis on health promotion and prevention, based on experience report. Initially, the paper explores the historical constitution of what is currently known as mental health clinic. Then, we present some tools that may support the psychologist’s practice in this context, based on the interaction between the distinct knowledges which students must acquire to obtain a Psychology degree. The results show a need to reflect on the practices that are currently being carried out in mental health clinics — given the necessity to update the technical definitions that guide psychologists’ work in this field — as well as a need to specify criteria for the evaluation of the methods employed by psychologists. Thus, we see that there is a need to update teaching in Psychology and professional practices in the field of mental health.