Habilidades Sociais no Contexto Escolar: A Prática do Psicólogo Escolar no mundo pré-pandêmico e durante a pandemia.

Abstract

Social Skills (SS) can be defined as the set of social behaviors of an individual that favor a healthy relationship with others. And the school, with its social function focused on development, presents itself as a rich and possible environment to work on such skills. Considering the importance of HS for development in its most diverse aspects, as well as the damage generated by social isolation due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, we sought to analyze the performance of the school psychologist about concerning the development of social skills of students, taking into account pre-pandemic and pandemic contexts. To meet this objective, 6 semi-structured interviews were carried out with professionals from a basic education school, being these teachers and school psychologists. The interview data were transcribed and analyzed using the IRAMUTEQ software, with the analysis of the Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC). The analyzed corpus was divided into 2 subcorpus and 4 classes. Subcorpuses A and B addressed, respectively, the “Proposals and Obstacles related to the theme of social skills” and “Concept, practice and importance of social skills”. The results indicated that the performance of school psychology related to the theme occurred through guidelines and partnerships with the teacher, and projects aimed at classes and families, addressing the themes according to the demands of the school, mostly aimed at self-control and emotional expressiveness. . It was also noticed the need for the topic to be better addressed at school, aiming to strengthen these skills in the school environment.