Abstract

In this paper, the role of psychology in disaster risk management is problematized, taking health psychology and community social psychology as references. It is proposed as a central argument that the privilege in disaster care for which the discipline has chosen has a limitation in the role that is not in tune with the theoretical advances in the matter. Similarly, it is indicated that the broad focus carried out by psychological science to the impacts of disasters implies a distancing from non-pathologizing readings of life. As a way of closing the opening, there is an Enough already! of the privilege of pain care when it has been shown that pain could have been avoided

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