Psychology

Concentration Area: HEALTH, CULTURE, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Lines of Research

Mental Health and Therapeutic Actions

It studies the processes of health and illness in the course of human development. It investigates pathological and health processes, diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic interventions. He is also interested in topics related to religiosity, death, sexuality and subjectivation processes. This line contains three thematic axes:

Thematic axis 1 — Psychopathology, Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnosis: Investigates psychopathology, psychodiagnosis, and psychological intervention in specific contexts, such as: psychoanalytic, phenomenological and systemic clinics; situations of violence, migration, and eating habits.

Thematic axis 2 — Religion, Mental Health, and Culture: Investigates phenomena related to language and religion and their relations with mental health from the psychoanalytic and phenomenological perspectives and their relationship with the philosophy of language.

Thematic axis 3 — Therapeutic Actions in Health Services: Studies topics related to therapeutic actions in public and community health services and their respective underlying health conceptions, focusing on innovative and creative methodological alternatives that qualify listening in situations of vulnerability and exclusion, including indigenous people and immigrants, and that employ methods that value the potential of culture itself, including sports and other cultural manifestations.

Contemporary Culture and Human Relations

It investigates contemporary culture, in the proper dimensions of human relations in the social world and the production of subjectivities, both from the point of view of languages, technologies and hegemonic values, whether scientific, ideological, economic and/or religious and their psychological repercussions, as a point of view of resistances and lines of flight. This line is organized around the following thematic axes:

Thematic axis 1 — Alterity, power, and violence: contemplates the theoretical and practical aspects of power relations, alterity, and gender violence. It encompasses relationships between generations, races/ethnicities, cosmology/worldviews, and between people who fit hegemonic norms and so-called “different” people. It also investigates issues related to the dialogue between hegemonic cultural formations and local/cross-cutting resistances related to struggles to conquer rights and public policies.

Thematic axis 2 — Culture and Work: Study the transformations in the world of work and the relationships between work, well-being and health. It also analyzes the relationships between work, the mediation of suffering and illness, as well as subjective mobilization in the various work contexts. It also encompasses organizations and their social processes: interpersonal relationships, groups, religions, climate, leadership, culture, and power in organizations.

Thematic axis 3 — History and processes of subjectivation: studies the historical process of building truth regimes in legal psychology, as well as in the field of crime and violence studies, with special emphasis on Brazilian legal psychology and public criminal justice policies in Brazil. It integrates discussions on the history of psychology, criminology, and studies of violence, in conjunction with the human sciences, considering the need for interprofessionalism to understand complex topics, such as those related to the study of violence and religion and the role of sports in mental health.

Human Development in Family and Educational Systems

It investigates human development in various social contexts, the family as a system in the different phases of its life cycle, and social and educational processes in a school context. Relational, sociocultural, and developmental processes in the family and at school stand out. In a broader social scope, human rights policies that guarantee the right to diversity and inclusion are studied. This line of research is organized in three thematic axes.

Thematic axis 1 — Family dynamics and configurations in multiple contexts: seeks to understand intrafamilial connections in various contexts, particularly those of diversity, and to propose the development of methodologies for working with couples and families from the perspective of prevention and treatment.

Thematic axis 2 - Psychosocial Processes at School: studies human development in an educational context, such as teaching and learning processes, the training of educators, and social interactions, at micro and macrocontextual levels, including sports practice and its educational and socializing potential.

Thematic axis 3 - Human Development, Diversity and Inclusion: investigates issues related to culture, specifically diversity, inclusion, and human rights and their repercussions on human development.

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Mental Health, Therapeutics and Culture Laboratory

Presentation: This laboratory is linked to the CNPq Research Group called Mental Health, Therapeutics and Culture, in force since 2004. This Group seeks to contribute to studies and practices pertaining to the area of mental health, promoting and coordinating research, intervention, and teaching activities, in an interdisciplinary approach. This laboratory works in an integrated way with the emphasis on clinical processes and Evaluation, Planning and Psychosocial Intervention for undergraduate psychology, in research activities on psychodiagnosis, psychopathology (depression, panic syndrome, schizophrenia, psychopathy, childhood development disorders), clinical interventions, psychological assessment - including projective (Rorschach Method TAT, HTP) and psychometric techniques, psychopathologies of sexuality; as well as research in the area of sexual violence against children and adolescents, custody shared, adolescents in conflict with the law, abusive use of alcohol and other drugs by adolescents.

‍Objectives: Develop and improve research activities at UCB, in a coordinated and articulated manner between graduate and graduate studies, in order to integrate undergraduate, Master and Doctorate students in Psychology into research projects and activities. Bring together related research projects, making part of your activities feasible in common physical spaces and necessary to make your equipment and permanent and consumable material available to your work teams. Enable the articulation between inter and transdisciplinary knowledge with the integration of teachers from different graduate programs and areas of knowledge.

Responsible: Profa. Dr. Maria Aparecida Penso

Religion, Mental Health and Culture Laboratory

Presentation: The Mental Health, Religion, and Culture laboratory was implemented at the end of 2015 for the development of research in mental health and religion. It brings together teachers and students from different levels of education (undergraduate, master's and doctorate).

Objectives: Develop research related to the topic of mental health and religion, in connection with social and cultural issues, integrating teaching, research and extension activities in undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology. Produce bibliographic material related to the topic, as a result of research carried out, in partnership with undergraduate, involving teachers and master's, doctoral and undergraduate students.

Responsible: Profa. Dr. Marta Helena de Freitas

Laboratory for Psychological Studies of Complex Systems

Presentation: The Laboratory for Psychological Studies of Complex Systems carries out research on development, family and health promotion processes, from a systemic perspective, under different methodological approaches.

Objectives: The laboratory aims to strengthen the ANPEPP “Family, Development Process and Health Promotion” working group, coordinated by the person responsible for the laboratory, and to enable theoretical and methodological reflection on the topics researched.

Responsible: Profa. Dr. Julia Bucher-Malushke

Work, Suffering, and Action Laboratory (LATRASA)

Presentation: The Labor, Suffering, and Action Laboratory (LATRASA) seeks to carry out research, studies, and interventions through the work clinic within the scope of the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Catholic University of Brasília. The laboratory proposal came after the post-doctorate of the researcher responsible for it carried out at the CNAM (Paris), with a view to building a space for listening to suffering at work with workers from various professional backgrounds. This listening aims to potentiate the action of the subjects who work and, thus, to contribute to designing health in the spaces of working in the face of the adversities of the contemporary world of work.

Objectives: Reflect on the contemporary world of work with a view to promoting alternatives for workers to seek health in their work contexts; to listen politically to suffering at work with workers from various professional backgrounds with the purpose of proliferating forms of life not adapted to the domains of capital.

Responsible: Profa. Dr. Lêda Gonçalves de Deitas

Sports and Health Psychology Laboratory (LAPES)

Presentation: The Laboratory was created in 2017 and aims to develop studies with psychological constructs and their relationship with physical activity, health, and human performance through the creation, adaptation and validation of psychometric instruments; assessment of mood state, Coping, Burnout, happiness, emotions, among others., supporting research carried out with various segments such as athletes, the elderly, the disabled, schoolchildren, patients with chronic diseases, among others.
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Tests performed: In a joint effort by professors from the PPGEF-UCB, doctoral, master's and scientific initiation advisors, several tests have been applied to identify stress levels, psychological gender profiles, motivation to perform physical activity and leisure activities, prejudice and stereotype processes, body image, affectivity, and others.

Responsible: Profa. Dr. Gislane Ferreira de Melo

Psychosociogerontology Laboratory

Presentation: The Psychosociogerontology laboratory was implemented for the development of multidisciplinary research in the area of Gerontology, which encompasses observation in Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and other psychosocial areas. It brings together research projects from different Courses/Areas/Programs of the University, with functional infrastructure for the development of research in the areas mentioned above. In this laboratory, several procedures are carried out, such as the transcripts and analysis of interviews with the elderly; analysis of photographs and footage of the elderly; applications and analysis of the Rorschach tests.

Objectives: Provide support to research projects and activities that analyze and investigate the psychological and sociocultural aspects related to aging and to the acute and chronic adaptations that occur in older people in different life situations.

Applied Psychology Training Center

Presentation: The Applied Psychology Training Center (CEFPA) offers the physical and functional structure for the development of a series of practical activities related to teaching, research and extension and aimed at the community, especially the provision of different forms of psychological care to the community of the Federal District.

Objectives: To attend to the practical curricular and research activities of undergraduate and graduate students and professors (master's degrees and specializations) in psychology at UCB, through psychological care services open to the community. CEFPA favors research, training for professional practice, and the social commitment of psychology in the three emphases of the undergraduate course: Evaluation, Planning, and Psychosociological Intervention; Management, Training and Health Promotion; Clinical Processes and in the different lines of research of the Master's degree.

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Gross monthly fee: 48 x R$ 3,416.50*

Monthly fee with Business Discount: 48 x R$ 2,118.23**

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*Values for the year 2025.

**Consult conditions with the sales team.

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Scholarships

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The award of scholarships is regulated by its own, widely publicized notice, whenever scholarships are available. Currently, the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Psychology has the following types of scholarships:

— Master's/Doctorate Scholarship from the Graduate Support Program for Private Educational Institutions (PROSUP — CAPES — Ordinance No. 181 of December 2012);

— Master's/Doctorate Scholarship from the Federal District Research Foundation — FAP-DF (PMD/UCB/FAPDF Program, 2017);

— Assistance for paying school fees from the Private Educational Institutions Graduate Support Program (PROSUP — CAPES — Ordinance No. 181 of December 2012);

— Postdoctoral grant from the Capes National Postdoctoral Program — PNPD (Ordinance No. 086, July 2013).

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Check out the matrix of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Psychology at UCB.

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