Ana Maria Jung de Andrade

Avaliação da formação e trajetória profissional na perspectiva de egressos de um curso de psicologia

The objective of this work was to gather knowledge on the career formation and trajectories of psychologists who graduated in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A semi-structured 18-topic questionnaire on professional activity, evaluation of undergraduate course and suggestions to improve curriculum was sent by e-mail or postal mail to 143 alumni, graduated between 1997 and 2004. 79 alumni (78,4% women) replied. Results indicated that 88% of the alumni work as psychologists, most of them had a first job as clinical psychologists (41,7%) and 88,6% sought further academic or professional courses. Regarding the undergraduation course, 29,4% indicated that clinical Psychology was more privileged during the course. The main suggestions for a new curriculum were the creation of non-existent disciplines and greater theoretical diversity. These results show that the professional profile of these psychologists tend to be orthodox, have a favorable professional perspective and the suggestions meet the recent curriculum directives for the Psychology courses.