Abstract
Psychology approached the social, evoking changes to the work and training in this field. The purpose of this article is to investigate the place that social policies take in the theoretical and political foundations of the pedagogical projects of the courses (PPCs) degree in psychology in Brazil. The research analyzed 40 PPCs from public and private institutions of the five regions of Brazil. The sections about social policies located on PPC texts wereanalyzed based on: a) the fundamentals of the course and b) the description of professional practice (comprised of the curricular emphases and indicated performance sites). As a result, it was found that when dealing with social policies, the courses have a technical and practical focus, worrying, recurrently, with the promotion of health and social commitment - identified setting in two dimensions analyzed. The limited definition of the latter two concepts deserves attention, corroborating the statement of the literature on the restrictions of their use to target social policies.
Keywords:
Psychology training; curriculum; social policy.
