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Department of Psychology Learning, Development and Personality Research Lines: Existential Phenomenological Approach in Clinical Psychology Graduate Program in School Psychology Human Development laiz.chohfi@gmail.com |
PhD Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (IPUSP). She also holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the same institution. She holds a doctorate from and a double degree in Psychology from USP and Philosophy from the University of Évora (Portugal). She has collaborated with the Laboratory for Studies in Phenomenology.
Existential and Practice in Psychology at USP (LEFE-USP) for 15 years, where currently contributes as a supervisor of psychological practice in institutions.
She has already supervised psychodiagnostic care initiatives offered to low-income families, psychological on-call care at Centro-Escola at IPUSP, care and attention at USP’s student housing, , among others. She currently supervises the psychological care project offered by LEFE at the XI de Agosto Legal Department of the Faculty of Law at USP. As an on-call worker, she has taken part in care initiatives at Fundação Casa and the Military Police. She has also been a member of the Práxis nucleus – Center for Philosophy, Culture and Politics (Portugal) since 2019. She worked as a psychologist at USP, assigned to the Superintendence of Social Assistance (SAS) for four years (2013-2017), developing care projects and care for students who received assistance from the university to stay.
She was part of the psychology team that was in the field during the massacre at the Raul Brasil State School in Suzano, taking part from the day of the massacre itself until the opening of a competition for a greater number of psychologists in the municipality. She was also a member of the supervision team of health professionals from the São Paulo State Health Department from the Self-Esteem course. She has been a university lecturer since 2015, having taught undergraduate and specialization courses that relate to both theory and practice based on existential phenomenology, including as an internship supervisor and supervisor of Course Conclusion Papers. She has published articles in journals indexed on national platforms and international platforms, as well as book chapters, in addition to participating in events in conference modality, one of which was even held at the invitation of in the Federal Senate.
Research projects
Psychological Attention to Department XI de Agosto of the Faculty of Law of USP (2021 – Current)
Student Permanence and Suffering: possible modalities of psychological practice for caring for students (2023 – Current)
Psychological Attention via Psychological Reception: investigating online possibilities (2023 – Current)
Rehabilitation of the tradition of the area of Psychological Counseling: conversations for the continuation of a history (2023 – Current)
Rehabilitation of the tradition of the area of Psychological Counseling: Psychological Counseling Service (2024 – Current)
The limits and frontiers between Psychological Outreach and Collaborative Interventional Psychodiagnosis (2017 – 2020)
CRUSP Cartography (2016 – 2017)
CRUSP Psychological Outreach (2011-2012)
Building a Network of Health Care: alternatives in the contemporary world (2007-2013)
Street Graffiti: motivations and functions – Research Training I and II (2004-2004)
Study of the Inscriptions produced by the inmates of Pavilion 5 of the former House of Detention at Complexo Penitenciário Carandiru, located in São Paulo (SP) ( 2003-2004)