In view of the increasing entry of the psychologist in the social assistance services, this article aims at analyzing the psychological practices in the field of childhood and youth, highlighting the complexity and the historicity of current conceptions of this know-how. This theoretical study discusses the professional action of the psychologist, considering the sights and practices as both established in the reality and the creators of the reality. Using the biology of knowledge and French institutional analysis this paper reflects on the conceptions of social, institution, politics and subjectivity. Taking into consideration the ways of seeing as constituted in the social interactions and conditioned to social and historical contexts, it points towards the reflection about daily practices from the problematization of sights on the world. Inquiring about the inadequacy of the psychological practices in social assistance, it reports to the field of visibilities in social services and the diminished aptitude of Psychology in maneuvering it, related to its own clinical history. Therefore, it concludes assigning the analysis of implications and intervention in institutions as an ethical task of psychologist.
Psychology; subjectivity; ethics