A atuação do psicólogo no Centro de Convivência do Idoso: um relato de experiência a partir da psicologia social comunitária.

Abstract

The Municipal Elderly Center of Campina Grande is a place which has a service for the older people, and it has the daily public of almost 50 people. Its purpose is promote health and develop the autonomy of its participants, through group activities in the field of Physical Terapy, Geriatric Medicine and Pedadogy. Therefore, there is no Psychology services, even thought having the demand for that, bringing the questioning of that fault. This paper is a report of an internship experience that ocurred in the Municipal Elderly Center of Campina Grande, state of Paraiba, between the period of august and october of 2016. The intervertions were developed with the public of the service, which has the age between 45 to 95 years old, and the approach used was the participative metodologies with the orientation of the Social Comunitary Psychology. Were planned interventions that were able to estimulate the involvement between the participants, based on a demands raising that was developed on the beginning of the internship. As results was possible to notice that the group was supportive, cohesive and showed more autonomy than the beginning. In this way, is large the importance for the search of new ways to develop group procedures that promotes the protagonism of the elderly of the group.