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Psicologia: ciência e profissão

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CAVALCANTI, Denise Fernanda de Lima. Experience in an unknown field: the police institution considered as a human surrounding. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.1, pp. 144-153. ISSN 1414-9893.

The present article intends to demonstrate my apprenticeship experience in the subject Work Psychology during the year 2004 in a police institution of São Bernardo do Campo. The article is a reflection about the policemen group that I accompanied, starting from the observations and a critical analysis about the psychological process inside it, which was reflected on the institution and the policemen. The apprenticeship was based on the the worker's mental health, trying to demonstrate the new trends of Psychology on this institution and the wide field of the psychologist's work.

Keywords : Condition and organization of the civil police work; Work Psychology and mental health of the worker.

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