O processo de inserção em psicologia comunitária: ultrapassando o nível dos papéis

Abstract

This article is based on the concept of Community as a theoretical landmark of reference to the insertion process in Community Psychology. It approaches the process in two main dimensions: an epistemological one, in which the matter of community reality aprehension and the relation between scientific and popular knowledges are discussed; and a methodological one, in which both the multidisciplinary, which underlies the comprehension and the process of insertion, and the access routes to community -Institutional and Minicipal- are studied. As a conclusion, the article states that the paramount purposes of the insertion process are to make the community psychologist significative to the community, surpassing, therefore, the simple representation of roles, and to allow, during its course, the perception of the path to the intervention to be adopted for the development of the community and of the community subjects.