El quehacer de la Psicología Comunitaria: Coordenadas para una cartografía

Abstract

A distinctive feature of the interactions between Community Psychology practitioners and government agents is that they are diverse and confusing. Internal tensions and contradictions arise that make reconciliation difficult within a rigid disciplinary framework. Using international reports on disciplinary action, theoretical principles and the institutional context in which interactions take place, this paper proposes an attempt to map these actions over an expanded discipline field obtained by superimposing three central concepts: individual/community, improvement/transformation and dependence/autonomy. In order to apply this mapping, we used the results of six Chilean research reports. We discuss their scope and comment on the implications of their results.