Tuotromedico: Social psychology

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TO CONSULT

In addition to the well-known consultation psychologist, there exist other areas in which the psychologists are necessary, and exercise important functions. One of these areas is the social psychology that next we delimit:
The principal difference is that the social psychology worries especially for the conduct of the persons like members of a group. For example, of the violence more than him to be of interest the personality profile, he is interested in the social statuses that favor it or the social mechanisms to minimize it.

DEFINITION OF THE AREA OF KNOWLEDGE

It is the area of the Psychology directed to reduce or to prepare situations of personal and social risk, straight determined by the social environment,

(There is understood by risk situation the lacking coverage of very basic human needs: subsistence, lacking in social integration, lacking in access to social resources, inequality of opportunities, discrimination, social exclusion...).

across the development in the recipients of the skills and necessary competitions, in order to improve his social reality and to look for the solutions most adapted to his problems.

AREA OF PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE

Intervention in the community.

Family and Infancy.

Third age.

Shortcomings, disabilities and disabilities.

Woman.

Youth.

Juridical psychology.

Psychology of the free time.

Psychology of the physical activity and the sport.

Psychology of the traffic and the safety.

Environmental psychology.

Others (social minorities, passers-by, immigrants...).

LEVELS OF INTERVENTION AND FUNCTIONS

Levels of intervention (recipients):

Individual,
Group (Relative),
Community.

Functions:

To detect needs, (to know the skills, competitions and existing resources in the recipients).
To offer consultancy and advice to professionals or managers of programs or services.

To plan programs of performance, (by means of skills of group, familiar, environmental intervention, mediation skills..., directed to solve problems by means of:
The resources development (skills, competitions...) in the recipients.
The community dinamizaci�n (prevention, social participation, sensitization...).
To realize formative activities directed so much to professionals as to not professionals.