This text represents a discussion held from a survey that aimed to identify the issues and the contexts in the journal Psychology and Society and in the proceedings of the National Meetings of ABRAPSO, both published by the association, which cover the period from 2000 to 2010. From the data collected, it discusses the articulation of socio-political-cultural and social policies and projects context, in which the first reveals a high incidence and the second a low incidence in publications. Despite there is a big difference in the publication of papers that discuss these contexts, one perceives a gradual increase from one year to another in productions that belong to and that reflect the context of policies and social projects. These data, therefore, in addition to other factors, reveal the commitment of psychology in entering the spaces for the construction of public policies and social projects in order to ensure the promotion and defense of human rights and a society in which it is worth living, ie, interest in the construction of the common welfare.
Social project; Social policy; Psychology; Human rights
