Formação em psicologia para a atuação profissional em Políticas Públicas de Saúde: uma análise dos cursos de graduação das Universidades Públicas do Ceará

Abstract

Teaching the skills required for work in the field of public health policies is essential in the psychology training process, given that services linked to the Unified Health System (SUS) account for a significant portion of psychologists being hired. With this, the importance of evaluating how psychology courses organize their curricular structures in relation to the formative trajectory of higher education was perceived, analyzing how these documents address important skills for the role of psychologists in public health policies. health. To this end, a documentary analysis was produced based on the investigation of the properties of training in psychology in the state of Ceará, making an overview of how the state's public universities work on professional preparation in public health policies. In this way, an in-depth observation was made on the organization of the Pedagogical Course Projects (PPCs) of the three courses that are offered in public education institutions in the state, namely: Federal University of Ceará (UFC) Campus Fortaleza and Sobral and State University of Ceará (UECE). To support this analysis, the Technical Reference booklets from the Technical Reference Center for Psychology and Public Policies (CREPOP) were read and, based on the directions related to the psychologist's work in different public health policies contained in these documents, it was possible to group pertinent information that could be understood in central themes that guide the psychologist's work in this field. With the results of this study, it was possible to gather significant elements about public education in Ceará in psychology and public health policies, highlighting some potentialities and gaps identified in the curriculum and developing, as a technical product, a guide for evaluating the suitability of PPCs for the training of psychologists in public health policies. This mechanism could serve as an aid so that Structuring Teaching Nuclei (NDEs) of psychology courses have safe guidance on the skills that a curriculum should address regarding the training of psychologists for work in this field, and can assist in the process of building a PPC or in the reevaluation of existing curricular structures.