BAIMA, Larissa Soares    GUZZO, Raquel Souza Lobo. Community Psychology and Participation: Historical Notes and Considerations on the Community Development Model. []. , 20, 3, pp.993-1013. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.54362.

This article aims to discuss the theme of participation processes in Community Psychology projects in Brazil, specifically regarding the concept of participation present in one of these projects. For this purpose, it presents a brief historical review of the construction of community development work in Brazil, demarcating the development process of the importance of the idea of participation in its proposals, as well as a critical analysis of its assumptions. It seeks to add to this analysis some contributions from Antonio Gramsci's political thinking, which may assist in examining the assumptions of participatory conceptions present in other types of community work than those developed in the orthodox models of community development. As a contribution, we offer the problematization of the notion of participation present in a model of great reference in Community projects in Psychology, extracted from a historical research on Community Psychology in Brazil. Such model, presented as Community development, was submitted to a reflection in the light of the presented theoretical contributions, which allowed the verification of the maintenance, in this alternative model, of the fundamental assumptions of the kind of participation present in the orthodox models of Community work.

: participation; community psychology; community development.

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