Psicología comunitaria y políticas socialesestudio del campo técnico del psicólogo de la intervención social en el marco de los servicios sociales comunitarios españoles

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between community psychology and social policies, seeking to determine which contextual conditions, institutional and interaction of actors help to explain the form and structure of the technical field of the psychologists that work in social intervention in the General Social or Community Services as part of the Spanish Social Services Systems. As a methodological framework, we use the Strauss & Corbin (2002) approach known as Grounded Theory, and also the Coller (2000) multidimensional multiple cases. We study five General Social Services, trough twenty-four interviews to professionals, members and managers of these services, town hall and autonomous community managers and external agents, representatives of professional associations and academics concerned with the issue. As a result, we observe that the integration process of the psychologists that work with social interventions and the components of their field are explained in the context of three major sets of conditions: in first place, the institutional conditions arising from the legal-regulatory bodies and their impact on the technical, management and administration framework. Second, the actor’s interaction processes around reflection dynamics, training and definition of perspectives and frameworks of intervention, all of them developed in negotiations and alliances between the experts, politicians, leaders of the professional associations and academics. And finally, the conditions of the amount and type of problems, the multidimensionality and complexity that are involved in social problems which demand attention and that affect the technical requirements of response