Master in Psychology

Since the creation of the Psychology Graduation Course in 2005, the creation of a Psychology Graduate Program at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) was already envisioned. From the conclusion of the first undergraduate class in Psychology in 2010, plans began to be drawn up which resulted, in 2014, in CAPES 'recommendation to create the first stricto sensu Graduate Program in Psychology at a public university in the state of Goiás.

The creation of this program is, therefore, the result of the maturation of the undergraduate course in Psychology (undergraduate and bachelor's degree) at UFG, which, in 2013, had four classes with the completed course. Although Psychology is a new course at UFG, it has a teaching staff and a physical space that can contribute enormously to teaching and research in Psychology in the Midwest region. Psychology at UFG has laboratories, study rooms, research centers, a Psychology Center in which teaching, research, and extension activities are carried out in the most different areas of Psychology and, also, a Center for Studies, Research, and Extension of the Adolescent (CEPEA).

This new postgraduate program seeks to contribute to the continuing education of professionals who graduated in Psychology and related fields, to raise the quality of teaching, and develop critical and socially referenced knowledge in the area of ​​Psychology. This is especially important for the state of Goiás, which, based on data collected in 2012, opens more than 2,300 vacancies every year for the training of psychologists and psychologists.

This new Graduate Program at the Faculty of Education, with the tradition and quality that characterize and distinguish it, will direct your attention to the complex and contradictory needs of Brazilian society, taking a critical stand in the face of market interference. One of its main goals will be to study, research the production of knowledge related to the strata of the population that have little use of psychological and scientific knowledge, that is, popular and excluded sectors in our society.