This article tries to bring out for debate the methodological value that hermeneutic can have as an epistemological instrument when applied in the area of school Psychology and the usefulness of the participant observation technique in the context of a qualitative methodology of research accomplished in the public school. For the analysis of the information contained in the daily report book and in the interviews, it was used the content analysis to achieve a sight that comes to enhance the multidimensional aspect of the learning difficulties, the characteristics of the communication and of the students, teachers, psychologists and the own researchers behavior. In the stage of the categories interpretation, it tries to bring up the sense of experience from the contact with others and the psychologist's performance in the collective health field, using the existential understanding as base.
School Psychology; Participant observation; Hermeneutic
