The vocational training of psychologists during the pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, has disrupted and altered the daily lives of billions of people in the
world, affecting health, the economy, as well as education. In the face of the sudden
confinement, school courses were suspended and, therefore, the direct teacher-student
interaction, provoking changes in perception, valuation and affective states, which have
generated living conditions marked by uncertainty and the risks of contagion. In particular, the
vocational training of university students, abruptly immersed in an online education, has
implied unexpected experiences in students who, despite everything, still remain in higher
education. The objective of this paper is to present an analysis on the professional training of
psychology students from their intervention in the educational field, based on their
narratives. Sustenance is a qualitative methodology, which implies the construction of
information from the results, highlighting unforeseen situations, the search for alternative
strategies adapted to specific problems, and their contribution to a rich training in experience,
creative in didactics and training by using new technologies as challenges in the dimension’s
certainty-uncertainty, generating different degrees of dissatisfaction–satisfaction. In this
process, affective, academic, communication, respect and empathy support is highlighted as a
formative context.