The psychological practices in public policies of social assistance, public secutity and youth

Abstract

From the implementation of the Public Social
Assistance System, in Brazil, the number of psychologists
has increased in social, security and
youth services. In this sense, social assistance coordinated
with other public policies of social protection
directed to guarantee rights that has constituted
as a place of research and problematization
in the psychological field. Thus, this article aims to
analyze the place of psychology in public policies
of assistance, security and youth in two directions:
first, from the positivist heritage of psychology;
and, in a second way, it focuses on the practices
taking into account how public policies implement
the constitutional rights, but the processes that
operationalize and the obstacles they face open several
intervention strategies. To foster this debate,
we suggest a permanent problematization of, at least,
three questions: what are we doing, as are we
doing and what are the effects of these practices.