Abstract

DELGADO MARTINEZ, Luisa Fernanda; DA SILVEIRA GOMES, Rafael  and  LUNA GARCIA, Jairo Ernesto. Subjectivity and psychosocial risk: challenges for activity of work’s psychologist. Salud de los Trabajadores [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.1, pp.39-49. ISSN 1315-0138.

In order to examine the challenges facing psychologists specialized in occupational health, involved in assessing psychosocial risk factors in Colombia, we analysed their activity considering the standards and values that permeate and constitute their practices regarding the expansion and production of worker health. Seven themes were constructed from well-attended meetings involving the same number of psychologists. These themes were analysed under the Brazilian’s perspective of Health of the Worker and Ergology. Findings were summarized along three lines: 1. The institutional system: psychologists’ activities are mediated by both advances and limitations of the current institutional system (companies, government, occupational risk insurance companies, workers and educational institutions). 2. Re-standardization (update): within a capitalist economic structure, through their daily activities psychologists rewrite pre-exsiting norms (values and norms of the institutional system), creating pathways that allow them to transform worker health. And finall , the third finding which, in turn, constitutes the conclusion of this investigation: 3. Collectiveness vs specialization: the need to build collective level techniques, logic and devices that allow insight and intervention on work activity, with the aim of expanding and promoting worker health.

Keywords : health; work; psychology.

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