Contributions of Historical-cultural Theory to a supervised internship program in School Psychology

This article investigated a supervised internship program in School Psychology conducted in a public school in João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. This internship program was based on Vygotsky's Theory of Historical-cultural Psychology, who stresses that social interactions are imperative to cognitive and conscience development and that a school is as space for mediation of culturally organized social-historical knowledge. The internship program focused on the development of relationships with institutional actors, settling into the school routine, active participation in the assigned activities, and advising teachers, staff and students. This program indicated the importance of supervised internship for the construction of the identity of school psychologists and its effectiveness in processes that underlie human development in public educational settings.

Supervised Internship; School psychology; Historical-cultural theory