Skills and training in psychology: guidelines for the Unified Health System

Abstract

This work aims to understand the possible relationships between the competences pointed out by the National Curriculum Guidelines for Psychology with the Technical References published by the Technical Reference Center in Psychology and Public Policies (CREPOP). It is a documentary research, using the discourse analysis methodology. After the floating reading of the technical references produced by CREPOP between January 2007 and September 2019, four documents were selected for the research. These were read in their entirety, a file was created and the construction of dialogical maps of the chapters related to professional practices. It was observed that there is a greater relationship with the competence of health care and permanent education. The other competencies of leadership, decision making and administration and management are being extended to shared forms of action. In addition, it was possible to observe speeches that mentioned other competencies that ended up expanding the performance of psychology, but that are not pointed out by the curriculum guidelines, such as working with an expanded clinic, dialogue, collaborative work and dialogic ethics.