This paper presents some considerations about research methods adopted by the authors in the course of their academic work in graduate programs in Clinical and Educational Psychology. They point out to the need of developing new methodologies adapted to the study of those psychological phenomena in their natural settings. It is presented, therefore, a brief consideration of qualitative methods applied to psychological research and, thereafter, some remarks on the double condition of scientific study and psychological practice observed in the modality of qualitative inquiry called intervention research. Some studies carried out following that methodology are indicated as examples of research routines attached to a psychological practice in education and mental health.
research in clinical and educational institutions; intervention research; research on psychological practice; psychological care; psychoeducational care