Abstract

COLLARES-DA-ROCHA, Julio Cesar Cruz. Mental health in community psychology of the PUC-Rio in the 1970s. Rev. Psicol. Saúde [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.2, pp.35-46. ISSN 2177-093X.  https://doi.org/10.20435/pssa.v9i2.504.

Mental health is a historical theme in community psychology, which started to be developed in the Americas from the decade of 1960s. Our goal in this work was to produce a history of community psychology at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the 1970s. The reasearch was based on several sources, such as annals, articles, book chapters, and an interview with Professor Maria Elizabeth Ribeiro dos Santos. We are going to introduce, briefly, the practices of the community psychology carried out in the United States and Brazil, focusing on the activities produced at PUC-Rio: The Community Psychology Department at the Hospital Fernandes Figueira and the creation of the discipline 'Community Psychology'. History demonstrates that the traditional areas of action of the community psychologists were health centers and hospitals. In the PUC-Rio, the activities were carried out with the knowledge of social psychology, specifically regarding the operative groups, the institutional psychology, preventive psyquiatry and community psychology developed in the USA.

Keywords : mental health; community Psychology; history of Psychology; hospital; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

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