Psychopedagogy and health

reflexions about psychopedagogic intervention in hospital

Abstract

The object of this paper is to systematize the psychopedagogic planning and intervention elaborated by the coordinator and the students of the Psychopedagogy course at PUC-SP in the pediatric ward of the Hospital Servidor Público Estadual (HSPE) from March 2004 to December 2006. Therefore, the history of hospital classes is introduced in both national and international contexts, as well as the professional training of the teachers who will work with these classes, keeping the reader aware of the place and the subject of the research. In addition, the history of hospital classes at HSPE is presented, as well as the path that the Psychopedagogy course at PUC-SP has followed. This new path arises from the awareness that there is an enormous gap between the professional formation of teachers for hospital classes and the great daily demand, which might be filled by psychopedagogy in hospital classes.