Mapeamento psicossocial participativo: metodologia de facilitação comunitária

Abstract

The article analyzes the perception of young people about the community from the community facilitationmethodology named participatory psychosocial mapping with “ProJovem Urbano” program students, based on the theory of community psychology. This methodology promotes community’s knowledge, awareness with the environment, interaction with residents and participation in activities, as well as recognition of the difficulties experienced and the potential to be developed. The survey was developed with qualitative nature based on the dialogic experiential method. It had a sample size of ten students from “Escola Papa João XXIII” of the “ProJovem Urbano” program in Vila União, in Fortaleza. We used participant observation and participatory map and the psychosocial and cultural circles. We used the construction of meaning for the analysis. We observed, however, that the participants generally tended to move away from the community, not participating in community activities and not feeling belonging to that social environment, requiring participatory methodologies to accomplish the social reinsertion in the community. We conclude that the psychosocial participatory mapping provides a reflection on the reinsertion and reintegration of young people into their communities because it consisted of a form of dialogue and problematization of reality, through knowledge and awareness of the social context.