Formação em Psicologia e a apropriação do enfoque da atenção primária à saúde em Fortaleza, Ceará

Abstract

The socioeconomic changes that took place in Brazil in the 1980s and the guarantee of public policies by the ‘citizen constitution’ sparkeda transformation in the psi field: the impracticability of the self-employed worker model and the opening of new fields of performance. Among these, PublicHealth, on its three levels of care, is what has enabled these new forms of integration the most. However, the psychologists' process of dialogue with this field of knowledge has been problematic, a fact that has lead to a type of training that has not provided the necessary readiness for them to work in line with SUS.This article aims to analyze the proposal of training professionals to work in primary care as foreseen under the under graduate programs in psychology in Fortaleza by means of its political and educational projects. To achieve this, the authors used a qualitative approach and document analysis as their methodological strategy. It was found that, notwithstanding the new curriculum guidelines, psychologists are still trained based on a tradition al clinical proposal, with education centered on the intervention model of health. The authors conclude there is a need for changes designed to expand and requalify the training in psychology to work in primary health care.