ABSTRACT
In this Introduction, the reader will find a brief overview of a general model of psychological professional function – the General Theory of Psychological Intervention (GTPI). The GTPI is the result of the authors’ attempt to conceptualize psychological intervention from a psychological perspective: to consider professional psychological action not only as a way of using psychological scientific knowledge but also as an object of that knowledge. The GTPI is thus a psychological theory of psychological intervention. The GTPI is based on the following core assumption. The plurality and heterogeneity of the levels and spheres of the psychologists’ actions, of the phenomena in relation to which they are called upon to operate, does not allow one to think of the general theory of intervention in terms of identifying common elements that cut across the various forms of professional practice. The GTPI adopts a different approach based on abstraction: the definition of a conceptual model of superordinate logical level – a meta-theory – that operates as a conceptual and methodological framework for sectoral theories, each focused on a field of intervention and/or type of phenomenon (e.g., psychotherapy, organizational counseling, community development).
