Este libro es producto de una praxis implicada en el hacer psicosocial comunitario en salud, e integra temas, problemas, métodos y técnicas de recortes investigativos de proyectos UBACyT. Desde las perspectivas de la Epidemiología Crítica, las teorías de género y subjetividad y sus mediaciones, abordamos los contextos críticos en salud; los territorios y las narrativas de Salud Mental; la participación y los movimientos sociales; las condiciones de trabajo; las representaciones y las identidades profesionales; el Síndrome de Burnout y las estrategias de prevención en trabajadores de la salud, bancarios y subterráneos; las vulnerabilidades y los proyectos de infancias y adolescencias; y los dispositivos de acción transformadora en Prevención y Promoción de la Salud. Como colectivo universitario entendemos la investigación como una hermenéutica crítica de los saberes y haceres en salud en sus dimensiones sociohistóricas y emancipatorias. Proponemos categorías de análisis sobre representaciones y prácticas sociales que interpelan al pragmatismo de la gestión de riesgos y daños descontextualizados. El sentido de este recorrido es elucidar, reflexionando sobre lo que se hace y lo que se piensa con los actores de la investigación-acción participativa, promoviendo un “saber hacer” abierto a lo nuevo y a subjetividades autónomas y transformadoras.

Contiene: Atencion primaria y salud psicosocial; Alternativas para la ejecucion de programas de atencoon en salud psicosocial comunitaria.

This book is the first of two volumes that bring together the works presented at the congress "Contributions of Psychology to COVID-19", organized by the Interamerican Society of Psychology in 2020. This was one of the first virtual international meetings on psychology and COVID-19 in the world and brought together researchers and professionals from South, Central and North America in a single online event. The content of both volumes includes many of the first issues addressed by researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the Americas at the start of the pandemic – before vaccines, before knowledge of treatment and impact, before our worlds and daily lives were forever changed. Chapters in the first volume focus on the impacts of the pandemic in mental health, social and family dynamics, educational processes and the work of health professionals. Chapters in the second volume are dedicated to studies addressing the impacts of the pandemic in vulnerable populations; proposals of psychological interventions to deal with the distress caused by COVID-19; strategies of coping, resilience and adaptation; and the development of psychological instruments of measurement and assessments during the pandemic. The content of these two volumes marks a baseline for the collective work initiated by psychologists who came together to answer the call to combat the pandemic across the Americas. In that sense, both volumes are truly a “snapshot in time” that could help us assess in the future how much progress we have made to apply psychology to the pressing demands of our time.

This is the first of two volumes collecting the key proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology, the first to be held in Africa in the 123 years of its history. The theme of the conference was "Psychology Serving Humanity", a recognition of psychology's unfulfilled mission in the majority world and a reflection of what that world requires from psychology. Mainstream Psychology finds its largest number of exponents and leading personalities in the high income countries of the global West. The Other Psychologies, referred to by different names, are scattered across the rest of the world. Some of the names of these other forms of Psychology include indigenous Psychology. The main driver of indigenous and other forms of non-mainstream Psychology is the endeavour to embed the discipline in the dynamics of local societies. Psychology has entered an interesting era, however. While the dominant philosophy underpinning the discipline remains Western, Psychology in the majority world in 2000s may have reached a tipping point. It took over a hundred years but the 2004 and 2012 International Congresses of Psychology held in China and South Africa heralded a newfound possibility for the discipline. There is an opening of the field to potentially new thought and forms of the practice of Psychology. These proceedings are published in the hope that all psychologists, especially those located in well-resourced institutions in the West, confront the divided reality that characterizes Psychology so as to creatively consider the opportunity opened up by the growing field at the peripheries. Care was taken when assembling both conference and proceedings to ensure that the entire international psychological community was represented. Volume One contains contributions to Majority World Psychology. Volume Two contains contributions to Western Psychology.