Ethical and contextualized performance in supervised basic internships in Health Psychology: an experience report by professors

Abstract

Psychology, as a science and profession, has gone by some curricular proposals and, as a result, discussions about teaching in psychology have become more intense, as well as debates about practices in training with the recognition of the contribution of basic internships throughout the course. The Unified Brazilian Health System (SUS) helped a lot in demonstrating how much the approximation of the different realities in health is still necessary for an engaged performance of the category. The objective of this work is to discuss the importance of internships for the future psychologist’s formation. We used the teachers of the internship in psychology’s experience, a specific modality in basic internship, to problematize the relevance of the development of professional skills which help in the qualification of this performance. This internship is present in the fourth year of the Psychology course at a college in Salvador, Bahia, and proposes the passage of small groups of students through different fields of health and work organizations. We understood that the transit of the student through different contexts of practice in health and having the mediation of a teacher are differentials for training in the area. This internship proposal contributes to the development of a professional more critical, ethical, reflective and attentive to the phenomena that occur with those to himself and those whom he provides service. Studies like this and others with different methodologies can help in the construction of professional and pedagogical practices in Psychology that are more reflective and committed to our Brazilian reality.