About the course

The course is designed to provide students with the epistemological and historical bases of Traffic Psychology and its interdisciplinary relationships with other fields of knowledge, such as Traffic Medicine, Law, Public Health, Traffic Engineering, Education, and Psychometrics. It will improve technical and practical knowledge required to conduct the driving psychological aptitude test required by the Brazilian Traffic Code to candidates willing to obtain their National Driver's License (CNH), to renew their professional license and/or change their license category. It will also broaden the possibilities for psychologists to work in education, security and human mobility in the traffic, as well as in traffic intervention and rehabilitation.

The professional specialized in Traffic Psychology focuses on working at clinics that offer the test for obtaining the driver’s license; however, this professional may work in education, as well as in organizational contexts. At the end of the course, the professional can claim the title of Specialist in Traffic Psychology at the local State Traffic Authority (DETRAN).

Subjects

• Traffic Psychology: Contexts and Issues
• Traffic Psychology Legislation
• Traffic Engineering and Safety
• Psychopathology and Clinical Cases in the Traffic Context (Behavioral)
• Traffic Education
• Public Health and Accident Prevention
• Traffic Medicine: Norms and Procedures
• Scientific Method
• Psychological Assessment in Traffic Psychology: Norms and Procedures
• Psychological Assessment and Disability: Norms and Procedures
• Fundamentals of Psychometrics
• Psychopathology and clinical cases in the traffic context (Psychoanalysis)
• Social Psychology and Traffic
• Personality Assessment (Paleography)
• Memory Assessment
• Psychological Assessment and drugs: norms and procedures
• Personality Assessment (Pfister)
• Personality Assessment (PMK)
• Interview in the assessment process in Traffic Psychology
• Psychological Assessment Documentation
• Intelligence Assessment
• Attention Assessment
• Research on Traffic Psychology Seminar
• Traffic Psychology Supervised Internship
• Final Paper (Monograph)