Psychology Supervisor Profile on Brazilian Services School (training and attending in Clinical psychology)
This study aimed to provide data on the demographic profile of the supervisors of undergraduate courses in psychology obtained from a research project titled "Services School of Psychology (attending and training) in Brazil," which included among its objectives the characterization of services schools of psychology in Brazil. The survey was made available online in a website specific to this research and disseminated through various forms of media communication. Potential participants (supervisors, trainees, or managers of one of the services school of psychology in Brazil), after accessing the site on their specific area, entered their personal data (age and sex), institutional data (employment status and institution type and location) and professional data (theoretical approach and lenght of work in the field). Of the total of 846 potential participants, only 147 were supervisors of psychology courses who had fully completed the questionnaire and were therefore considered for this analysis. The data collected during 2008-2010 revealed that the majority of respondents were female (77.6%) aged 38-45 years (45.5%) with a formal job (90%) within private institutions (56%) and were located in the south and southeast area of the country (78%). The greatest number cited "Psychoanalysis" as their theoretical approach (24%) and had over 10 years of experience in Psycho-assessment/Psychotherapy (64.4%). Although the sample is probably not representative of the profile across Brazil, the data provide important information about supervisors, a key part in the training of undergraduate students.
Service-school of psychology; Psychology; Demography
