Beetween wellknown paternalism and to-be-known participation: thinking about a community intervention with people from Buceo neighborhood

Authors

  • Clara Netto Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Montevideo
  • Alicia Rodríguez Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Montevideo
  • Susana Rudolf Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Montevideo

Abstract

The paper analyses a community intervention developed by professors who belong to the course Techniques in Community Service, Health Department, School of Psychology, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.The response to a demand put by members of a chapel allows the development of a strategy based on gaining awareness about some aspects of dominant ideology affecting the relationship of community agents with recipients of their social practices.Reflection goes to the kind of social change aimed at by community psychology if considered from a political point of view. The analysis of social situation gives ground to intervention and allows to think about professionals implication in the dialogic process here dislayed.

Keywords:

Intervención comunitaria, cambio social