Line of research: Behavior Analysis and Evolution
Advisor: Ueliton dos Santos Gomes

The line aims to carry out clinical and experimental studies, with behavior analysis as a conceptual area, basic and applied research and Radical Behaviorism as a philosophical approach to behavioral sciences. It is interested in studying the behavioral processes of organisms as a product of selection processes.

Research topics:

• Clinical Behavior Analysis;
• Experimental Analysis of Behavior;
• Complex Human Behavior.

Line of research: Contextual Behavioral Therapies
Advisor: Carolina

The line of research aims to carry out clinical studies of individual and group psychotherapeutic processes based on the processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Analytical-Functional Psychotherapy and Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy.

Research topics:

• Processes of psychological inflexibility and flexibility;
• Mindfulness Skills;
• Emotional regulation skills;
• Interpersonal effectiveness skills;
• Acceptance processes;
• Behavioral change processes;
• Psychological disorders and behavioral management;
• Therapist person.

Line of research: Applied Behavior Analysis   
Advisor: Laura Adriano Mekdessi

The line of research aims to conduct clinical and experimental studies, using Behavior Analysis as a theoretical framework. This line of research aims to study and understand human behavior in different contexts. There is interest in studying Contextual Therapies and Behavior Analysis Applied to Autism Spectrum Disorder, which are important aspects for the therapeutic process.

Research topics:

• Behavior Analysis Applied to Autism Spectrum Disorder;
• Behavior Analysis Applied to the Clinical Context;
• Contextual Therapies;
• Important aspects for the therapeutic process.

Line of research: Psychosocial processes: inequality and diversity in Psychology   
Advisor: Ana Terra Shroud Gonzaga

The line of research aims to promote a field of dialogue between theory and practice, addressing contemporary issues through the theoretical deepening of the notions of gender, sexuality, race-ethnicity and class. Such issues are understood from the theoretical-methodological perspective originating from Critical Social Psychology.

Research topics:

• Gender and sexuality;
• Ethnic-racial relations;
• Human rights and mental health;
• People with disabilities and accessibility;
• Aspects related to the performance of the social psychologist.

Line of research: Social Behavior   
Advisor: Mary Virginia of Carvalho

The line of research aims to conduct studies with the individual or group clinical and non-clinical population on social skills and problem-solving, using Behavior Analysis as a theoretical framework. This line of research aims to study, understand and develop social skills and problem-solving skills in the behavioral repertoire of individuals.

Research topics:

• Social behavior;
• Social skills training for clinical and non-clinical populations;
• Acquisition and development of problem-solving strategies;
• Important aspects for the acquisition and development of social skills.

Line of research: Neuropsychology of Aging
Advisor: John Paul Moreira Di Vellasco

The line of research aims to investigate the neurocognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects involved in the aging process, analyzing the factors that impact its performance, as well as strategies to strengthen the cognitive performance and emotional well-being of elderly people.

Research topics:

• Neurocognitive profile of aging;
• Socio-environmental influences on the cognitive performance of elderly people;
• Neuropsychological intervention/rehabilitation strategies in neurodegenerative diseases in old age;
• Inference of emotion in the cognition of elderly people.

Line of research: Legal Psychology
Advisor: Melissa Pereira David Sousa

The line of research aims to evaluate, investigate and expand the role of psychologists in various contexts of the Judiciary. Social and Family Violence – The line of research on topics related to violence aims not only to diagnose the points that influence this phenomenon, but also to contextualize it to prevent all types of violence.

Research topics:

• Topics related to the various fields of activity of the psychologist in the legal context: family law, children and youth law, criminal law and labor law. Psychological assessment, public policies and prevention of various types of family and social violence.

Line of research: Adult Neuropsychology
Advisor: Saymon E. Ferraz Cardoso

The line of research aims to investigate the neurocognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects involved in the adulthood process with regard to the individual's cognitive processes. Analyzing factors that influence their performance based on the subject's past and current history.

Line of research: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Advisor: Leonardo Goncalves Hayne

The line of research aims to study psychological interventions in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in different demands and populations in the prevention and treatment, evaluation and promotion thereof, in different symptoms and mental and cognitive disorders in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the intervention proposal as well as the difficulties and limiting factors for the development of clinical demands.

Research topics:

• Topics related to the different contexts of intervention in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Behavioral disorders, cognitive disorders, therapeutic relationship, management of methods and techniques aligned with the context and specificity of the cases treated.
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Line of research: Professional and Career Guidance
Advisor: Maísa Roberta Pereira Ramos Lopes

Its objective is to promote studies and projects focused on the process of choosing a professional and career throughout the life cycle.

Research topics:

• Topics related to the various fields of activity in the area: Professional Guidance for adolescents and young adults in their first choice or re-choice; Career Guidance for adults in professional relocation; Retirement Guidance; Career Planning and Life Project; Formation of professional identity; Decision Making; Professional Maturity; Instruments and techniques in the Professional Guidance process; Evaluation of Intervention.
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Line of research: Psychosocial and Health Processes
Advisor: Suely Pereira de Faria

It aims to promote studies and projects focused on the following themes: perinatality, parenthood, pregnancy and puerperium, human infertility and prematurity. These themes are understood from the theoretical-methodological perspective of the Social Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Research topics:

• Early interventions in the clinic with babies;
• Guidance groups for parents and caregivers;
• Mental health care for pregnant and postpartum women;
• Social clinic in psychoanalysis;
• Technical advice on breastfeeding;
• Technical advice for multidisciplinary teams.

Line of research:
Advisor: Carolina Almeida Alves Ferreira

The line of research aims to investigate the psychoanalytic aspects involved in the process of feminine, sexual love and death. Aiming to promote projects and studies based on psychoanalytic theory and clinic. 

Research topics:

• Psychoanalytic clinic with women and other genders;
• Love relationships in psychoanalysis;
• Love, desire, pleasure and death.

Line of research: Organizational Behavior
Advisor: Catherine Vieira Souza Portugal

The line of research aims to investigate and evaluate micro, meso and macro-organizational phenomena, as well as suggest the application of intervention methods that affect the context. This line of research is developed under the theoretical perspective of Organizational and Work Psychology.

Research topics:

• Organizational Climate;
• Organizational Commitment;
• Organizational Culture;
• Involvement with work;
• Work Teams;
• Justice at Work;
• Motivation;
• Retaliatory Attitudes;
• Job Satisfaction;
• Organizational Health;
• Support at Work;
• Organizational Values;
• Moral Harassment in Organizations;
• Well-being at Work;
• Psychological Capital at Work;
• Work-Family Conflict;
• Work Engagement;
• Spirituality at Work;
• Flourishing at Work;
• Turnover Intention;
• Leadership;
• Career Success;
• Resilience in the context of Work;
• Other organizational behaviors.

Line of research: People Management and Organizational Behavior: interdisciplinary reflections with emphasis on a strategic approach and performance in organizations
Advisor: Hera Landi de Brito

This line of research aims to investigate psychosocial processes that characterize work organizations and to develop proposals for interventions that incorporate more complex levels of organizational reality and the world of work, aligned with market needs. It addresses both micro and macro organizational phenomena, but focuses on analyzing the set of policies and practices that reveal the strategy used by organizations to manage individual and collective action in order to achieve goals and objectives that define their mission. In this sense, it aims to provide professional training focused on emerging gaps and challenges, and that ensure a comprehensive view of the various possibilities for action in People Management in its breadth and dynamism, with an emphasis on planning policies and strategies in organizations from different segments so that studies can contribute to intervention proposals at a strategic level.

Line of research: Clinical Procedural Diagnosis from a Humanist Perspective
Advisor: Guilherme Nogueira

The line of research aims to study and prepare for clinical and critical management of the diagnostic process in Gestalt therapy through the humanistic, phenomenological and existential perspective.

Research topics:

• Procedural diagnosis in Gestalt therapy;
• Philosophical and theoretical bases of Gestalt therapy;
• Clinical and psychotherapeutic performance in the Gestalt Approach.

Line of research: Critical Social Psychology and Psychosocial Processes

Advisor: Daviane Rodrigues Ribeiro

It seeks theoretical-practical articulations within critical perspectives, with a social and historical emphasis. From this, it focuses on diverse psychosocial processes, the role of the psychologist and the debate on psychology as a science and profession in conjunction with other knowledge and practices.

Research topics:

• Conceptual and historical articulations in Psychology
• Public policies: RAPS; SUAS AND SUS.
• Gender and sexuality;
• Aspects related to the performance of the social psychologist.
• Relations between culture, society and the individual.

Line of research: Psychoanalysis and Expanded Clinic: Contemporary Symptoms and Violence

Advisor:

Simone dos Santos Abbey

This line of research aims to analyze and discuss the contributions of psychoanalytic theory, as well as its main methodologies and possibilities of interventions applied to new forms of mental illness, considering emblematic cases, such as acts of violence, arising from circumstances of extreme mental suffering, which require professional management and skill to deal with urgent and emerging situations arising from situations considered extremely traumatic, such as violence, attempts at self-extermination and other situations that expose the subject's body to a series of risk factors. The aim of this line of research is to enable psychology students to identify, intervene and adequately address situations considered complex and that require in-depth theoretical knowledge and management contextualized to contemporary psychosocial and political demands, going beyond the limits of the clinical practice, considered traditional.

 

Line of research: Critical Social Psychology: Economic-social constructions and connections with the Law

Advisor:

Barbara Sul Santana Fleury

The objective of this line of research is to investigate, through study and critical analysis, different aspects of the individual/society relationship and psychosocial processes.

The historical and constitutive bases of society and individuals in the world of work and in economic and social development are explored.

The articulation of Psychology with the scope of Law is emphasized in critical studies based on the relationship between Psychology, Law, State and society. Legal Psychology is addressed in theoretical and practical themes of its different fields of activity.

Research topics:

• Historical and social development of Psychology;
• Social economic and political bases;
• Individual, society and the world of work;
• Law, State and Psychology;
• Legal Psychology;
• Performance of the social and legal psychologist;
• Relations between social mode of production, work and law.

Line of research: Psychosocial Processes and Critical Psychology

Name: Tamara de Castro Mendonça Mesquita

This line of research seeks to establish theoretical-practical and political connections based on the analysis of different social phenomena that occur in contemporary times. It seeks to conduct historical, conceptual and qualitative research using different methodologies, referenced in Critical Social Psychology, especially in the aspects that dialogue with historical-dialectical materialism.

• Conceptual, historical and critical studies in Social Psychology;
  Individual-society relationship in history and in different social and group phenomena
• Public policies, collective health and psychiatric reform;
  Human rights, diversity and accessibility.