The role of the community psychologist from a community in Araucania: a service-learning experience

Abstract

Learning in the community context offers students new stimuli in the acquisition of knowledge, which in turn promotes the link between university and society. This experience is based on the Thesis Project for the International Diploma in Community Psychology: Methodologies for social action in health, education and organizations, at the Catholic University of Temuco (Chile), offering an ideal opportunity to study the real environment, in this case the community in Araucania, and propose alternatives from the perspective of Community Psychology (CP). The results of the experience show that the reality of the community space opens a range of elements that the CP must consider for its praxis and evidenced vertical practices, which allowed to generate reflections around the approach of the problem. As conclusions, the PC was observed as a facilitator of intangible resources.