Psicologia escolar nas escolas de educação integral

Abstract

The field of work in Psychology is expanding and allows this professional to be included in different sectors of society. School Psychology, which previously focused on psychometrics, clinical diagnoses and individualization of school failure, now advocates other forms of work, in which the political, social and economic dimensions involved in the configuration of the demands for which this work is intended are considered. Full-time schools foster demands that challenge the new way of working, which is characterized as critical school psychology. However, for this critical institutional work, the professional still requires more debates and exchange of experiences. In this study, we present a bibliographic review, with the objective of discussing School Psychology and the work of the critical psychologist and encouraging an evaluation of this practice in Brazil. We added two experience reports to the literature review, through which we illustrate ways in which psychologists work in full-time schools in the state of Alagoas. The reviewed literature indicated changes in the practices developed in the field of education. We assessed, based on the literature review and the experience reports in schools, that there are still challenges, especially political and economic, related to the critical work of psychologists in schools.