Graduate Program in Psychology

The Graduate Program in Psychology (PPGPSI) of the Catholic University of Pernambuco is defined as a space for the production and deepening of knowledge and scientific, practical, and ethical training for teaching and research activities in Clinical Psychology, particularly in the context of their specific concerns about family, gender and social interaction issues; fundamental psychopathology and psychoanalysis and clinical psychological practices in institutions. The Master's Course, which started in 1999, conceives as its object of study to prepare professionals from similar areas to become researchers, encouraging the development of research in the Northeast region, in addition to training for the exercise of activities in the clinic, with emphasis on practices psychological problems developed in public health and education institutions.

The Doctoral Course started in 2009, aims to deepen the theoretical and methodological knowledge already obtained in the master's degree and enable the development of the skills necessary to become an autonomous researcher, in addition to turning to favor a critical reflection on the psychological practices developed in the interface with the emphases that characterize its different lines of research. The PPGPSI is organized in a perspective that works with Clinical Psychology in its social, political, ethical, and cultural dimensions, aiming to qualify professionals in the area and related areas for research and production of psychological knowledge in order to become reflective researchers, trainers, and disseminators of knowledge, encouraging the development of research in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, as well as preparing professionals to act as teachers in higher education.