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Exercising Critical Stance: Challenges in a School Psychology Internship

Undergraduate students of the Psychology Course at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, perform internships in educational institutions when attending the disciplines related to the area of School Psychology. Imbued with a critical stance interns face demands for treatment, prevention and adaptation, and they comprehend the historical production of these demands. But in many cases, interns believe these claims are wrong, and thus fail to realize the multiplicity of elements that constitutes them and the forms and to act in its production. The objective of this paper is to present a course of study emphasizing the strategies developed to work with one of the challenges that present themselves during the supervision: to intervene at that point in which interns consider the school as something foreign to themselves. The strategies developed indicate that the deconstruction needed in the training of psychology students to learn to intervene in institutional processes experienced during the internships also requires the deconstruction of a way of thinking that creates a pretended subject who is outside the force diagram in which the intern process is.

Training Psychologist; School Psychology; College students (Psychology); Reports


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