%0 Journal Article %T A representa£¿£¿o social de alunos de escolas da rede particular de ensino acerca do papel do psic¨®logo escolar %A Carvalho %A Isaura Santana Costa %A Souza %A Maria Veracy Moreira de %J Trabalhos em Lingu¨ªstica Aplicada %D 2012 %I UNICAMP %R 10.1590/S0103-18132012000100012 %X this article aims at understanding the social representation that private school students have of the role of a school psychologist. the data included interviews carried out with 9 high school students from the 7h, 8th and 9th grades. the interviews have shown that the students see the school psychologist as a professional whose sole ability is to solve problems. thus, it is the school psychologist responsibility to better delimit their scope of action in order to produce a clearer understanding of their profession. %K students %K school psychologist %K social representation. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-18132012000100012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en