Decolonial Practices from a Community Psychology

This chapter draws attention to the possibility of thinking about practices in community psychology, from decolonization processes and beginning with the training processes in the psychological discipline, considering that the emphasis of the profession should be understanding and contributing to the solution of problems. Therefore, after contextualizing the space where our educational and research work has been developed, a reflection is made on the concept of “decoloniality”, from its deconstruction. Based on this concept, some experiences of psychologists are described and analyzed in relation to the P’urhepecha people, as well as indigenous teachers and work with migrant agricultural day laborer families. The importance of the work of co-authorship, of recovery of elements of epistemology, of dialogue of knowledge between the academic and the local P’urhepecha and other historically invisible groups is highlighted. Finally, introspections are shown and some proposals based on a decolonizing community psychology are posed.