Abstract

MARTINEZ CACERES, Marta Raquel. The psychology in Paraguay: challenges for an integration in Latin American scenarios. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.3, pp. 472-480. ISSN 0034-9690.

Psychology in Paraguay has been originated in the Education area, in the Psychology subject that had developed from the century XIX in the High schol schedule. Just in the decade of the sixty arise this study at the university, as much in the National University as the Catholic University. With the democratic opening in 1990, other public and private universities were opening for the psychologists formation. The great social inequalities in Latin America and the social problems needs the Psychology tools to generate knowledge agreed to the Latin American reality. The fundamental challenges for Psychology in Paraguay are the high quality formation and the researches. These two subjects arise as necessary to advance in the integration process of Paraguayan Psychology to Regional Psychology and other areas of the knowledge.

Keywords : Psychology; Quality; Research; Integration; High education.

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