Inaugural Class of the Specialization in Psychopedagogy

A real opening class. So was the lecture by the coordinator of the Psychology course at Bahiana, Prof. Mônica Daltro, last Friday night, at the Academic Unit Brotas. The lecture Psychopedagogy in Contemporary: a field for health promotion marked the launch of the Specialization course in Psychopedagogy at Bahiana, whose classes started on Saturday, June 04th. The course is coordinated by the experienced psychopedagogue Deborah Silva de Castro Pereira and it has a load of 715 hours/classes, divided into two modules, one theoretical and the other practical, with an internship in social institutions, with care for children.

"Our course, although we are starting the first class in the Bahiana, there's a story that goes along with Cria (Psychopedagogical Vocational and Human Resources Centre), which started in 1990, with prof. Jorge Visca", says Prof. Débora, who has, at her side, the vice-coordinator of the course and NAPP psychopedagogue, Josélia Abreu.

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In her speech, Prof. Mônica, who is a Master in Medicine and Human Health, by Bahiana, explained the individual in today's world and the new contemporary relationships. “The contemporary world values ​​consumption much more. And if this is so, today everything is temporary, volatile, relationships are disposable. This consumption goes beyond the purchase, the relationship with the object, reaching consumption in relation to time, for example"He explained.

In a light way, the coordinator of the Psychology course also spoke about how pedagogues today have to be prepared to deal with children and young people with different references than those they had in their training period. This, not judging it as good or bad, "but establishing that changes are taking place in different areas, and perhaps these new references are the most appropriate to deal with this world we have today".