School psychology in Brazil: appreciation and historical reflections

This article presents an historic overview of School Psychology in Brazil covering the transition between the XIX and XX centuries, with the creation of the first psychology laboratories for studies of children with learning difficulties, mainly resulting from the influence of North America and France. The subsequent period of crisis in the 1980s is also discussed, as is the search for new theoretical and methodological bases for involvement. The article is divided into two parts. First, it presents an overview of the main historical facts and data from research into concepts and involvement in school psychology in the Brazilian setting. Subsequently, contemporary issues are discussed that emerged from a movement towards the resignification of the practice of certain actions that have been proposed since the 1990s.

School psychology; History of psychology; Educacional psychologists