Estruturação de uma técnica projetiva de interesses para orientação profissional de adolescentes - TEPI

Abstract

This work presents the elaboration process of a Projective Interest Technique denominated TEPI, dealingwith Vocational Guidance work with adolescents. Its circumscription is in the intersection of Clinical Psychology, Vocational Guidance and Projective Techniques. Its objective is to facilitate the self-knowledge of those adolescents who seek the help of a psychologist when they have to choose a profession. It is based on the conviction that self-knowledge is one of the necessary resources for a conscious and responsible choice. Constituted by nine black-and-white templates with drawings representing areas of interest, as proposed by Angelini, the Projective Interest Techniqueis based on the perspective of the revelation of characteristics of personality through the techniques of thematic apperception. The intention is that the discussion of those characteristics servesthe understanding of both the psycnologist and that of the person under orientation of those aspects involved in bis professional choice. It was planned for individual usage consisting in asking the client to make up a story for each template. The work describes the process of creation and choice of those drawings considered most suitable to attain the proposed objective. It presents the present situation of Vocational Guidance through the examination of its history and it discusses the question of professional choice, the theoretical foundation, the role played by interest and the usage of projective techniques in the Vocational Guidance processoIt presents, through the clinical cases, the usage of the Projective Interest Technique in individual processes of Vocational Guidance, showing how the technique could collaborate in the process as a whole and specifically in the deep examination of the c1ient's self-knowledge. Having been developed within Brazilian reality and in arder to attend it, this technique intends to serve as an intervention possibility to the psychologist dedicated to the clinical work of Vocational Guidance especially in a model that takes into consideration the sharing of understanding attained on the contents manifested in the techniques with the clienthimself