The deaf person and psychotherapy: demands x qualification of psychologists

This research aims at understanding how the psychotherapeutic process unfolds itself before the deaf community, bearing in mind the demands which are put forward and the technical preparation of the psychologists. This research has a quantitative, descriptive and field nature, having been conducted in the municipalities of Quixadá and Quixeramobim, both situated in the Sertão Central region, Ceará state, during the period spanning from June to September 2018. The instruments that have been employed were made up of structured questionnaires, shown to psychologist professionals and deaf people. For the purpose of data analysis, the descriptive statistics method was employed. The questionnaires were administered to seventeen psychologists and nineteen deaf individuals. It was perceived, facing the results produced by the respondents, that the psychologist professionals were in fact technically unprepared to be prescribing psychotherapy to the deaf community. This way, it is suggested that is necessary there is more engagement and preparation of these individuals before the demands that were put forward, in order for these to don’t work out as exclusion tools. As for deaf people, it is perceived that the sample obtained shows real demands which amount to psychic suffering, in which 61,1% hinted at being interested in undergoing psychotherapy, butmost of them are not psychologically assisted.