La formación del Psicólogo Clínico en Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

This research aims to describe the formation of the Clinical Psychologist in Cuenca, from a historical and contextual perspective. The approach was qualitative with exploratory-descriptive scope, the techniques prevailed in the documental analysis and the semi-structured interview; the units of study were documents of each university and for the interviews were selected, through the strategy of snowball, people who are experts in the subject. The results show that local clinical psychology emerges as a specialty developed at the undergraduate level, which began in 1977 at the Catholic University of Cuenca, which conceived its first graduate in 1987; followed by the University of Azuay and the University of Cuenca, starting in 1988 and 2009 respectively. The local training of the Clinical Psychologist has a practical emphasis, whose academic plans were developed from the academic path of its actors, to the detriment of internationally representative models. After the growth of specialization in the city, there are positions for and against the positioning of clinical training at the postgraduate level due to the influence of political changes in Higher Education.