Abstract

CATAO, Maria de Fátima. Human being and social problems: issues of intervention. Temas psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.19, n.2, pp. 459-465. ISSN 1413-389X.

This text aims to reflect on the relationship between human being and social problems and to delineate procedures of psychosocial intervention in the extent of this relationship, from the capture and analysis of meanings and senses of what was lived and the imagination of the future. It works with the construction of life project, as a possibility of intervention along the individuals and the institutions, through the analytical process of the conditions of self and world action existence. It is a theoretical study with empirical reference, supported by researches and interventions on psychosocial analysis and construction of the life project, conducted by the author, with young people and adults at process of exclusion and with institutions and low-income communities. The contributions of this study above point to the emergency of the reflections on the relationship between human being and social problems and to the psychosocial analysis as an intervention in daily life, as it can shed light on the concrete conditions of existence of human life and the possibilities of transformation.

Keywords : Human being; Social problems; Intervention; Psychosocial analysis; Social-historic psychology.

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