ABSTRACT
The emergence of new areas of practice in Psychology has required changes in the training process. In order to analyze how the training in psychology has prepared the future professional to work in special education, the curriculum of 34 national undergraduate courses with better evaluation was conducted. By consulting the websites of the institutions, the subjects that presented some direct reference to special education were selected, in 36 different subjects, grouped into three categories: those that present such modality restricted to some type of deficit or disorder, those that do not specify the focus of special education and those focused on giftedness. The results showed that most courses concentrate, on average, two subjects of this nature throughout the course, usually offered between the 3rd and 10th semester of the course, mostly in the form of optional subjects.
Keywords:
Professional training; psychologist training; school psychology