Psychological Duty at the Women's Service:

the event of care

Abstract

The present investigation aims to understand the meanings of the practice of psychological duty in Police Stations Specialized in Violence against Women (DEAM). The shift was held at DEAM's in Juazeiro-BA and Petrolina-PE, both included as activities linked to the mandatory internship of the psychology course at Univasf. In this context, psychological duty, as a modality of psychological practice, is taken here from an existential phenomenological reading. From Gadamer's (2002) hermeneutic

methodological perspective and Critelli's (1996) analytical perspective, the experience of on-call interventions over a period of eight months was taken as a basis, mainly recorded in the logbooks of 07 graduating students. Psychology course and its advisor professor, as the corpus of this research. A dialogue was promoted with them, which enabled the construction of understandings about how the practical modality of duty is presented. From the analysis, it was understood that the shift is characterized by clinical interventions of reception through listening, care and clinical actions not understood as modern techniques. It aims to enable the transit of those seeking the shift in its ontico-ontological dimension and its respective appropriations. It aims to co-build spaces for the creation of sense/meanings from language as a clearing in which care takes place. Appropriating the shift as a space for change seems to add new ways of situating oneself in front of their own existence, constituting other ethos based on their condition of being-there.