O acolhimento pela psicologia hospitalar em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

The emergence of COVID-19, as a worldwide pandemic, has filled hospitals with admissions. From this scenario, the need to research how the reception of patients occurred, as a light technology, by hospital psychologists. This work aims to understand the changes in the practices of psychologists in the hospital environment when carrying out, offering or facilitating the reception of patients, during the COVID 19 pandemic, between 2020 and 2021. data, Google Scholar; SciELO and PePSIC, information on the role of psychologists regarding the reception of patients in the hospital environment during the pandemic. The research is characterized as exploratory and for the analysis of the accessed information the method of content analysis was used. Based on the selected productions, the practices and techniques used for welcoming patients were identified and the understanding of welcoming was discussed. Psychology professionals needed to change their way of working and managing the different demands in this period of global pandemic. Each action proved to be a challenge to be conquered, the effort made by professional psychologists to build a way to maintain the quality of care for patients and their professional colleagues. It is highlighted in the articles accessed that the configuration of the consultations had to adjust to the extraordinary needs of protection against the infection of the disease. Welcoming could not only be maintained in assisting the demands of the time, but also developed and adapted to the needs of the psychologist and patients hospitalized with COVID-19.