The Psychology Training and the Social Welfare Field: Experience Report in a Teaching Stage

Abstract

This article is based on the experiences of a teaching internship carried out in a Graduate Program in Psychology at a Higher Education Institution (HEI). It aims to problematize the way in which Social Assistance is eventually approached in the training of psychologists, from the perspective of the experience reports of the stage in question. The data analysis was composed from the contents discussed during the internship, as well as a theoretical analysis regarding the training of future psychologists and the approach of Social Assistance in their training. With the realization of these analyzes, we were able to perceive a certain lack with regard to the approach of Social Assistance in the training of psychologists (the) in the HEI that we take as a reference. Thus, we emphasize the need to include disciplines, research and projects focused on Social Assistance policy, taking into account that future Psychology professionals who may come to work in social assistance services have support to face daily challenges, exchanges of experiences, articulations between areas of knowledge, and can recognize themselves in the place of the other, this being an activity as important as the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during graduation.