Action Research and Psychosocial Intervention in Community: analysis of articles published from 2000 to 2011 and categories of reading of the methodologies of intervention in community

Abstract

The article examines the area of the psychological intervention in community. The study is based on the articles published in the last 12 years in specialized journals, defining the field of enquiry in two methodologies of intervention: the action research and the psychosocial intervention. The study proposes some psycho-clinic reading categories of the reports of experiences, together with a synthesis of the historic-epistemological context in which those methodologies are placed in. The analysis of data allows to highlight the variables that organise the distribution of published articles; during the discussion of the results are proposed hypotheses on types of intervention and on representations of community that most characterize this context, along with a reading of the historical period that the models of intervention in community are going through.