Psychology in a multidisciplinary perspective and for collective social interventions lacks consideration both within the discipline and in interprofessional research and intervention settings. In fact, there is a lack of recognition of how this discipline has specific objectives, methods, and know-how to promote collective well-being. Furthermore, there is also a lack of awareness of how building individual well-being requires a global, systemic, and ecological approach (Prilleltensky, 2008). Consequently, there is an urgent need, assuming this perspective, to consider contextual variables also in individual focused interventions. Psychology has methods and procedures allowing people (at individual and collective level) to give voice to their own needs, to intervene in social interaction and on social determinants affecting the individual and collective life. Its knowledge allows individuals and the whole society to better pursue collective and individual goals in the social arena. Moreover, it is the important to be aware of social factors such as democracy, justice and fairness as determinants of individual and societal wellbeing. Infact, social and organizational variables are key elements in prioritizing intervention and promoting well-being through a value driven approach.
In this same vein, WHO (2022) introduced the One health approach to prevent, predict, detect, and respond to health threats while contributing to sustainable development in an ecological approach.
An Italian best practice promoted in 2025 "Right to Well-Being" is a grassroots legislative proposal for a public, free psychological support network for all, aimed at integrating psychologists into social services and local administrations to promote local health and well-being initiatives.
It is to know that Efpa too, recently recognized in Europsy Community Psychology for social intervention as an explicit field of practice; that will strengthen the whole psychology, consolidating the role of this discipline in wider spaces of research and intervention.