18 A？os de Intervención Psicosocial

this article is a very brief report of the origins, performance and achievements of the first 18 years of existence of the journal "psychosocial intervention". we focus particularly on a description of the situation which enabled the birth of the journal. the ideas that grounded this birth and that contextualized the initial working goals are also highlighted. achievements are mainly presented in the form of quantitative tables about published articles according to a range of other variables.