The professional master's degree in psychology in Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the current state of professional master's courses in Psychology in Brazil. Initially, discourse about the panorama of the stricto sensu professional graduate courses, demonstrating his formative proposal and placing the professional master's in Psychology. Then, based on a documentary analysis on the data published by the Sucupira Platform, it describes how these courses are organized in the CAPES to understand their identities. The findings demonstrate that: there are 15 professional master's courses in psychology and none professional doctorate; there are no courses in the North and Center-West regions; the Northeast and Southeast regions are equivalents in offers; the oldest course started in 2013 and is the only one with a grade 4; most courses (7) were recently implemented in the CAPES quadrennial evaluation and are still in the post-implementation evaluation phase; there is a greater concentration of professional master's degrees in Psychology in private institutions and in the inlands of Brazil; there are concentration areas and research’s lines that, predominantly, relate Psychology to the Health field, interfacing with various matters related to the psychologist's performance and demonstrating congruence with the reformulations of the National Curriculum Guidelines. Conclude that the professional master's degree in Psychology still under construction in its identity.