The insertion of Psychology in the primary level of health care demanded professionals to think over their practices, actions and conducts, considering the reality of the population they will work with, as well as the objectives of this level of health attention. This study aims to describe the experience of the psychologists from the Program of Professional Training in Community Health Promotion, in Family Health Units in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. For the development of the interventions, the assessment was initially performed to check the morbid-mortality patterns of the population. The psychologists' work was divided into two different approaches: one to support the professional team and another to accomplish community actions. Together with the clients, the psychologists did home visits, gave individual and familiar attention and group coordination. The groups were open or closed, being classified as educational/reflexive and socialization groups. In order to develop these activities, they used audio-visual resources, group dynamic techniques, group discussions and experience exchanges. It is noticed that the importance of the psychologist's actions in the primary attention should be focused on the intervention on the population health risk factors, aiming to attain behavior changes which might allow quality of life improvement.
Psychology; Psychologist performance; Family Health Program; Health promotion
