A atuação do psicólogo em um programa de acompanhamento periódico de saúde : alcance e limitações

Abstract

This work proposes to study the role of psychologists employed in the healthcare of a public institution in a regular health monitoring program named PAPS (Programa de Acompanhamento Periódico de Saúde), aiming to understand the reach and limitations of their performance to the practice of psychology in organizations. This object of study is highly important due to the need of promoting the modernization public agencies structure and implementation of new management models, where the contribution of the psychologist becomes crucial to the development of the public service employee into the main agent of this modernization process. Moreover, even though the organizational sector have been absorbing most of the psychologists in the agencies lately, the insertion of this professionals in this field is still very limited in relation to the sort of contributions that such professionals would be able to offer. In this sense, the present work could provide a contribution to other fields of actuation in psychology. Through bibliography research and interviews with the psychologists of the PAPS program established in the city council of Belo Horizonte we sought to demonstrate the historical development of the program and how the professional evaluate their work in the PAPS. As a result we expect to contribute to a more critical analysis of the role of psychologists in public institutions.