General Objective
To prepare, in a technical, scientific and innovative way, health professionals capable of analyzing, developing, implementing and monitoring policies, methods, instruments, actions and empirical knowledge in the field of mental health in its various contexts, based on the concept of biopsychosocial human being and of integral health, aiming at the transformation of actions in mental health in society and generating a healthy development for human beings and better quality of life for them.
Specific objectives
To provide technical and scientific training to human resources that meet the demand in regional mental health; to develop, together with the students, innovative practices of psychosocial action in mental health; to enable students to improve their performance in multidisciplinary teams and other interface practices with the health and social fields; to develop the student's critical sense in their professional performance, through theoretical-practical and scientific articulation, in order to contribute to the development of Psychology and its interfaces as a Science; to develop diagnostic surveys of mental health and social assistance services aiming at service improvements; to develop programs and methods applicable in the regional reality of mental health services in the metropolitan region of Ribeirão Preto, extending to other geographic regions; to provide technical and scientifically based services to the population demanding mental health services; foster the transformation of regional mental health services through innovative practices.
Graduate profile
Having as main objective the technical, scientific and innovative preparation of health professionals so that they are able to analyze, develop, implement and monitor policies, methods, instruments, actions and empirical knowledge in the field of mental health in its various contexts, the graduate of the professional master's degree in “Práticas de Institucionais em Saúde Mental” should have the technical and scientific skills to analyze, design, implement and evaluate transformative actions in the field of mental health in institutions from a systemic and generalist perspective. Such skills must be integrated in the graduate through the competence of integrative action of the different services and equipment, therefore, they must have a broad knowledge of the entire socio, political and economic process that is articulated with the mental health process in different institutional contexts, added of entrepreneurial attitudes towards social transformation.