%0 Journal Article %T Pensamento cr¨ªtico, forma£¿£¿o de psic¨®logo e atua£¿£¿o junto ¨¤ infancia e juventude %A Alberto %A Maria Fatima Pereira %J Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte %R 10.1590/S1413-294X2012000300010 %X the objective is to report the experience of creating critical thinking in the training of psychologists to work in the field of childhood and youth. sociohistorical psychology that comprehends man as active, social and historical, constituted and constituent of social practices is used. training and intervention are joined. training happens in two-ways, knowledge production creates intervention and intervention creates knowledge production and it is processed by intervention in contexts of risk for childhood and youth. practice happens in a way that promotes the linkage between subjective and objective, individual and social, and helps to transform reality. %K critical thinking %K psychologist training %K professional practice %K childhood and youth %K risks. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-294X2012000300010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en