Abstract
This paper aims, based on a qualitative bibliographical research, to reflect on the expanded clinic as a possible tool for the psychologist to exercise his daily practices in the context of public policies, specifically in the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), in working with families from the Family Care Program (PAIF), differentiating itself from the traditional clinic model. Initially, a survey was carried out on the expanded clinic in Brazil and its foundations to, in a second moment, list possible articulations of the psychologist’s performance in the PAIF with the expanded clinic, in order to reflect and re-signify the activities of this professional category within the scope of the social protection provided by SUAS. It was concluded that assumptions present in the extended clinic - such as, for example, analysis of the concrete demands of the populations served, guarantee of rights, denial of the user as an object and work aimed at the emancipation of the subjects - are also described in the documents that parameterize the SUAS which makes it feasible to consider it as a possible perspective for the work of Psychology in the context of Social Assistance.
Keywords:
Psychology; PAIF; SUAS; Amplified Clinic