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Temas em Psicologia

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PAIVA, Vera Silvia Facciolla. Social psychology and health: socio-psychological or psychosocial? Innovation of the field in the context of the brazilian responses to AIDS. Temas psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.3, pp. 531-549. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2013.3-EE00-PT.

A critical review of the literature on the uses and meanings of the expression psychosocial in Brazilian journals opens this text. It will discuss how the Brazilian notion of "psychosocial mode" to organize mental health care, framed within the health reform movements in the 1980s, contributed to the formation of a field of studies and innovative practices, developed mostly in the context of the Brazilian response to AIDS. Its human rights perspective is unknown in its details as well as its constructionist approach to health psychology defined as psychosocial rather than socio-psychological, distinguished also by a psychosocial approach at the various levels and territories of prevention and care practices. The techniques and work processes derived from a unique Brazilian vulnerability and human rights approach (V&HR) value the programmatic mediation of the inextricably linked social and individual vulnerability and, therefore, actions for mitigation of rights violations. Strongly inspired by hermeneutics and the social sciences constructivism, this approach to constructionist social psychology prioritize the comprehension of "inter-subjectivity in scene", understood as intrinsically related to socio-cultural scenarios - approached in programmatic encounters at health services through personal trajectory and everyday life scenes. The notion of person, taken as a subject of discourses and holder of rights, contrasts with the notion of a biological-behavioral individual of the health psychology tradition that remained active in other paradigms of health-disease processes. This article will provide references for a critical reflection on the historical and scholarly production in the field of AIDS included in this supplement.

Keywords : Social Psychology; human rights; vulnerability; constructionism; health promotion.

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