THEMATIC AREAS
This axis refers to the recognition of social, communitarian, environmental, as well as to those individual and family linked factors that promote strengths, human abilities (resilience), wellness and mental health of people.
At the same time it refers to the group of educational, scientific and professional contributions of psychology that facilitate the promotion and support of quality in life, as well as the prevention and treatment of individual and collective illnesses.
SOCIAL VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
Various types of social violence imply processes that generate asymmetrical relationship forms. They attempt against life, prevent human development and establish domineering and submissive patterns. These forms of social violence imply the use of force and the excessive practice of power.
The restraint, regulation and prevention of these forms of violence require the creation and application of laws and norms that declare the inherent human rights
The axis of gender refers to a cultural constructions that define differences between the masculine and the feminine as well as its repercussions in the integrity of human beings. This axis may include:
The biological substratum of gender
Socio-cultural conditions
- Education
- Patterns of upbringing
- Legal structure
Personality traits
Differential conducts
Asymmetrical relationships
- Masculinity
- Femininity
Psychological focus on gender
- Femicide and feminicide
Sexual Orientations and Practices
POLITICAL LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS:
This axis includes the various processes involved in the application, production, and development of legal documents that regulate the work of psychologists in academic contexts, in clinical practices and in social actions. This axis includes themes based on a psychologist’s involvement and incidence in mental health policies that impact society through its national apparatus. It could include:
Involvement in the production of laws
Work within civil society
Experience in the preparation of health policy
Protocols for psycho-social intervention
EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY:
Poverty can be defined as a shortage of needed resources, related to the fulfillment of basic needs, that impacts negatively on a population’s quality of life. In order to approach poverty, it is necessary to keep in mind that it is constructed on the basis of a society’s organization. That is, on economical and social structures which should not be taken into account solely from a present time perspective but rather, based on a historical perspective.
It refers to the Social and psychological effects provoked by natural events that have an impact in the most vulnerable populations. The areas that this axis may include are:
Survivors
Human resources in attention to disasters
Community aspects
Public politics
Systematization of prevention procedures
Social programs
Community Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology
Health Psychology
EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND ASSESSMENT:
It refers to activities focused on teaching-learning processes, on the acquisition of knowledge, and on educative processes, methodologies and assessments with respect to the general population and concerned with the training of the Psychology professional. The areas that this axis may include are the following:
Design and application of measurement instrumentation
Remedial and educative interventions
Educative challenges
Teaching-learning processes
Cognitive processes
Epistemology
History
ORGANIZATIONAL AND LABORAL CHALLENGES:
It refers to processes related to organizations and to informal and formal labor activities. It may include:
Industrial Psychology
Work Psychology
Training
Human resources and management
Recruitment
Burnout
Occupational health
Interdisciplinary work