The Perception of Interns in Different Institutions of Higher Education of Brazil on Supervision

In this article, results are presented concerning the qualitative analysis of perception of undergraduate students in psychology involved in some sort of supervised internship on their experience of supervision. A total of 312 student-interns of the 21 Brazilian states answered the questionnaire available in an online version for all educational institutions in the country that have agreed to participate in the research. Was used as an instrument for data collection the "scale on the optical supervision experience of interns in Psychology", adapted to Portuguese, including 27 closed questions and seven open questions. For analyzing the content of the open answers, we used the Sphinx Lexical software (version 5.0). As a result, we have that the evaluation of supervision on behalf of the trainees is quite favorable to supervisors and indicate that they often exhibit behaviors that promote learning and the improvement of interns, such as supporting the intern's desire to learn. It discusses the perception that the trainee has on the relationship with his supervisor in the area of training and instigate problem situations in the interaction between him and his supervisor.

Professional education; Training; Aperception; Professional development