Foco e Escopo

Psicologia em Revista, a journal edited by the Post-Graduation  Program in Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology  of  the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Grerais (PUC-Minas) focus on the following areas:

  • Social Psychology: Public policies: Health care, social assistance, Education, Safety; Groups, Institutions and Organizations; Organizational and Occupational Psychology; Occupational Clinics; Family; Gender relations.
  • Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis: Treatment, Clinical interventions and Health assistance; Mental health; Clinic and Culture; Clinical Practices in institutions; Clinic and politics; Psychoanalytic Clinic.

Kinds of accepted contributions

The periodical has two large sections:

1 - The section of articles, which comprises research reports, literature reviews, theoretical studies and professional experience reports (minimum of 15 and maximum of 25 pages, including the front page).

2 - An open section, which welcomes the following categories:

• Foreign authors’ articles or similar texts, already published abroad but not in Portuguese (minimum 15 and maximum 25 pages);
• Reviews of national or foreign publications, as well as thesis or dissertation abstracts (maximum 3 pages);
• Lectures given in relevant events (maximum of 10 pages)
• Other contributions of interest to the academic community, related to scientific events, as well as to technical, scientific and social issues relevant to the field of psychology, interviews etc (maximum 4 pages).