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2022-06-28
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Clinic with a psychosocial perspective

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Andrea Marcela Carrero Moreno Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Jobana Fayine Agredo Morales Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Marcela Velásquez Herrera Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Shadye Rocío Matar Khalil Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Adriana María Rojas Angarita Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

The article presents elements that allow us to think about a clinical psychology in which the psychosocial perspective not only constitutes a point of view in the understanding of the subjective dynamics that the psychologist addresses, but represents a nodal point in their practice. This is possible, as the psychosocial frame an epistemic and ontological position that allows the professional to approach the realities of the subjects and the communities, from a vision that assesses the complexity of the various elements acting in their realities.

Thus, when evaluating, diagnosing and addressing a certain situation, the psychologist includes in his clinical reasoning the perspective of the relational, the processual and the contextual. His perspective does not privilege biological determinants in understanding the discomforts that can affect a subject and, therefore, his praxis and ethical stance is not based on the pathologization of suffering, or on its classification. Contrary to this, the professional must identify that in the human and therefore in the health-disease processes, the bio, psycho, socio-cultural dimensions participate and interweave; which are implicit from the arrival of the subject to the world. The bet is then to learn a clinical psychology with a psychosocial perspective.

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