The process of constructing the TCC in psychology: a shared experience

Abstract

The present work presents the conceptions that guide the guidelines and the process of construction of the course conclusion works (TCC) of the Psychology course at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health (EBMSP), in addition to an analysis of the main characteristics that mark the productions from the last 10 years (2009-2019). The TCC integrates the curricular construction in Psychology, in the EBMSP, as an authorial and oriented narrative that initials the training with autonomy and theoretical-methodological reflection of a contemporary theme-problem. The work travels in dialogicity, a horizontal communicational perspective that allows exchanges, implications, negotiations between the entities that make up comprehension and writing. Because it is handmade, the construction process of the TCC appears in this text as a metaphor for the craft of the Bahian women of the acarajé, since, as with the cuisine of the acarajé, it involves interdependent and sequential stages. To make this possible, the course offers five subjects that offer direct support to the development of the TCCs, being distributed over three academic semesters. The end of this trajectory is crowned by the public defense of labor ceremony. In the last 10 years, 387 TCCs were produced and defended in the course, representing different types of scientific production, such as literature reviews, empirical research and experience reports. There is a high interest in the themes related to the Psychology, Society and Culture axis and in the areas of activity linked to health and clinic, which reflects characteristics related to the profession itself and the profile of the EBMSP course.