This is an experience report aiming to present the insertion process of psychology in services of the Family Health Strategy in a municipality of the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, through the activities of the Multiprofessional Residency Program. During this experience, it was possible to observe that both Family Health crew professionals and users of the service expected psychology to develop individual clinical actions preferentially. However, actions of interdisciplinary and intersectoral means were also developed, with interventions of health promotion, prevention and education, besides actions of teaching-service articulation and articulation with the health and mental health network services of the municipality, as well as participation in collective spaces such as the Municipal Health Council and the Mental Health Commission. We conclude that, although psychology has expanded its performance possibilities in the area of public health, there are still challenges in the scope of primary health care, especially referring to the need to improve the traditional practicing model of the psychologist, through work shared with other health professionals.
Psychology; Psychologist acting; Family Health; SUS