The pandemic in everyday life: reflections on the social and psychological impacts in the light of a critical perspective

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a reflection on the impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic on the everyday life of Brazilians from different social classes, cultures, and institutions, highlighting the increase in social inequalities aggravated by the context of the pandemic. Critical psychology was used as a theoretical support, in its power to guide and organize social practices aimed at the collective and favor the creation of public policies that are instituted as a tool for confronting and overcoming their current conditions. Particularly, it questions the role of school psychology in the context of the pandemic with the proposition of issues to be faced by the discipline, such as the expansion of threats that affect human development, the main object of action in the area. The text ends by highlighting the role of the environment, especially the school environment, in promoting the development of children and youths so that they can face these new threats, placing school psychology as central in this process and historical moment, in which it must commit to transform reality through collective and collaborative actions.