Abstract

SCORSOLINI-COMIN, Fabio; VILELA E SOUZA, Laura  and  SANTOS, Manoel Antônio dos. Becoming a psychologist: a Psycho-oncology training experience with a multiprofessional health staff. Rev. bras. orientac. prof [online]. 2008, vol.9, n.2, pp. 113-125. ISSN 1984-7270.

This study aims at reflecting on the Psychology students’ professional identity construction. The subjects were fifth grade students doing their practice training process in a public multiprofessional health care service, attending mastectomized patients (REMA/EERP-USP). The data were obtained from recordings of observations of attendance done by the multiprofessional staff and supervision received by the students, during one year of intervention. The data were analyzed qualitatively according to the psycho-educational approach. The results showed that, besides learning about cancer, the students were able to develop their knowledge about new possibilities of psychological interventions by participating in non-clinical activities with patients and also from the supervision events and meetings with the multidisciplinary staff. Those activities were shown to contribute to characterize the professional role, making it possible to attribute new meanings to psychological interventions, as well as assuming a professional identity compromised with reality. Those activities also gave students the opportunity to get training in a less stereotyped way, helping them to develop a questioning, entrepreneur and creative spirit.

Keywords : Professional identity; Professional education; Psychologist education; Psycho-oncology.

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