Pathways of a Community Social Psychology Laboratory

research- intervention and public policies

Abstract

This article reflects the performance of the Community Social Psychology Laboratory (LAPSICO FGG / ACE) in the context of public social assistance policy, with an emphasis on the outputs resulting from the project “The meanings of the participation of workers and users in the services of the Unified Health Care System Social - SUAS in the municipality of Joinville - SC ”. The laboratory is a space for studies, research and university extension, which has privileged the interface between Psychology and Social Policies. In this text the discussions are organized in the form of paths, as their reflection made it possible to write the results of the research in three categories “the paths of the laboratory” that describes a little of the trajectory of this space; “The paths in the social assistance policy” that reflects a perspective of insertion in this field; “The research-intervention pathways” which present some of the achievements mobilized by the research project that this article deals with.