O psicólogo e seu lugar: contexto hospitalar e práxis multiprofissional

Abstract

This work aimed to investigate how the perception of the psychologist by the health team is constructed in the context of hospital multidisciplinary work. To this end, the work adopted qualitative methodology, using interviews with professionals from different categories as the data source. The data collection procedure was carried out in a city in the interior of Minas Gerais, in a University Hospital, with phenomenological-existential as an epistemological and methodological perspective that supports the research and data analysis. After the collection, readings were carried out in order to highlight the articulations of meaning made by the professionals, their contextualizations and the hermeneutic process of their constitution. From the narrative plot thus constituted, the relations of meaning were dard to compose the significant plot of the social landscape found in the countryside. The following guiding axes of tunderstanding about the psychologist's work in this context were highlighted: entry into the health field, health conceptions, institutional influences, multiprofessional work relationships and the place of the psychologist itself. In the analysis of these axes, social representations stand out about the health professions that contribute to a mismatch in the multiprofessional dialogue, permeated by social and institutional conditions and coupled with a reproduction of health care still centred on the curative model and medical hegemony. Under this background, psychological praxis becomes difficult to integrate, since it is represented apart from the traditional health model or aimed at adjusting the patient’s conduct for adherence to treatment. It concludes by the need to open fields of reflection on the making of the multiple health professions both in training and in the institutional daily life and by the need for a greater appropriation of the discussion on psychological practice in the context of health both in the academic education of the psychologist and in the professional routine.