Research Project

The research group includes the research projects (“umbrella projects”) of the faculty members who are part of it. Within these broad projects, the different subprojects of Scientific Initiation, IC-MS, TCC, as well as the research projects of the master’s students are articulated.

There are four research projects, linked to the professors, as follows:

1. Psychology and Human Rights: Health and Education – Working on the integral formation of the individual, combined with the promotion and protection of health and quality of life, as well as their preparation for coexistence and social inclusion . Its objective is to research questions related to the formation of identity, the search for self-knowledge, and the promotion of human rights, with a main focus on childhood, adolescents, and youth. It focuses on the investigation and evaluation of stressful aspects and situations that harm the psychosocial development of children, adolescents, and young people. It proposes innovative intervention and preventive practices with these individuals, in different contexts, from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the areas of Health Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Socio-Educational Policies. Responsible professor: Dr. Margarita Inocencia Margarita de Lemos
2. Development, Symbolic Function and Inclusion Based on interdisciplinary research , it seeks to study human development, complex cognitive systems and different human languages. The objective is to verify that a symbolic and playful language can be instruments in the development of concentration, cognition and self-knowledge of the individual. It seeks to develop research that produces significant results for the practice of health and education professionals. It integrates the areas of Health Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Development and Socio-Educational Policies. Responsible teacher: Luana Carramillo Going
3. Children in foster care and children in the family: relationships between diagnostic understanding from a psychological perspective. The aim is to analyze the perception of children in the learning situation about coexistence in the institutional space, based on the qualitative analysis of the psychoanalytic perspective. The aim is to raise indicators that support the construction of public policies in the context of childhood, considering that these contexts are historically marked by neglect and abandonment, far from the needs of children’s biopsychosocial development. Responsible teacher: Dr. Hilda Rosa Capelã Avoglia
4. Psychoanalytic Considerations on Mental Health and Quality of Life  – The aim is to develop research in the areas of Preventive and/or Curative Psychology, with an emphasis on new practices in current public policies in the field of mental health, quality of life and promotion of human and social development. Responsible professor: Hélio Alves