Bahiana launches Professional Master's Degree in Psychology and Health Interventions

“Research within the scope of Professional Practice in Psychology: contemporary challenges”. This will be the lecture given by professor and researcher Virgílio Bastos that will mark the launch of the Professional Masters course in Psychology and Health Interventions of the Postgraduate Program at Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública which takes place on April 2, at 17 pm, in room 206, pavilion III of the Campus Brotas, at Av. Dom João VI, nº 306.

This will be the first Master's Degree in Psychology in the professional modality in Salvador and one of the few in the country. The main objective of the course is to prepare professionals in psychology and related areas to carry out research applied to intervention processes in extended clinics, outpatient clinics and in hospital contexts. From this perspective, the course proposes to develop care technologies, contemplating emerging themes in psychology and health and linking theoretical-methodological knowledge with its applicability in the fields of action. More information: http://pos.bahiana.edu.br/psicologia/.

"The professional master's is characterized by being aimed at training and qualifying professionals in the field. It has the same value as the academic master's, but with the following difference: that, in this case, the production to be developed during the course is not exclusively theoretical", stresses the program coordinator, prof. ª Dr. Mônica Daltro, exemplifying that the master's student can present the final product of their research in video format, text, booklets, games, software, websites, etc.

According to the professor, the course has the same social and legal recognition as an academic program. "With this, the master's student can evaluate some program or tool developed in their own field of work, such as, for example, describing a model of care for parents of children cared for in a health unit or creating an orientation booklet for caregivers of the elderly, ensuring, of course, a theoretical foundation. ”

The course professor Dr. Marilda Castelar highlights that, in the professional master's degree, the idea is that the study should focus on the performance already exercised by the professional, in order to enrich it. "The theoretical product of a dissertation has been something that really frightens professionals who are linked to a more objective, more practical activity in their daily lives. The idea is that they can solve problems that are in their daily work, that he is living. This will be of great help and will boost his career, without bringing a double shift of work, which is to write a dissertation with all the requirements that we impose on ourselves".

The new master of Bahiana, which has its classes concentrated on Fridays and Saturdays, brings as lines of research: "Psychology and Interventions in Hospital Contexts" and "Care Practices and Intervention Processes in Extended Clinic".

Psychology and Interventions in Hospital Settings

The line of research focuses on the improvement of professionals and the development of investigations and care technologies at the interface between Psychology and the various health problems in hospital spaces.

Care Practices and Intervention Processes in Extended Clinic

This line of research focuses on the development of research and tools arising from psychological knowledge applied to different care practices in the field of extended clinic and clinic in private and public contexts that address mental health.

"The concept of extended clinic brings together all interventions in the field of mental health, which are not necessarily carried out within a traditional clinic. However, the traditional clinic is also contemplated as a field of study in this line, a psychologist can discuss how racism arises. it puts in its clinical practice and builds, within the scope of the master's degree, a video to guide the fight against racism", explains the professor of the course, Dr. Marilda Castelar.