Revista Trabajo Social

Psychosocial intervention strategy to promote resilience and psychological well-being in victims of armed conflict

Susana Lemus Jiménez — 2025-09-04

Objective: to create an intervention proposal to promote psychological well-being and resilience in victims of the Aguachica / Cesar armed conflict. Methodology: under a quantitative and correlational approach, a comprehensive review of texts and research was carried out, the results of which account for the subject; in addition to a data collection, of a numerical type, based on standardized instruments; The participants were 61 adults recognized as victims of the conflict in the municipality of Aguachica / Cesar. The purpose of analyzing the data collected is to describe the variables, analyze the correlations that they may present among themselves, and based on this, make way for the creation of workshops that promote the mental health factors affected by an act of violence. Results: It was found in the participants of this study that only 30% have high scores in terms of psychological well-being and only 26% have high levels in relation to resilience, indicating the need for psychosocial intervention that helps strengthen these aspects. relevant in the improvement of the aftermath that the consequences of the armed conflict could leave, and an intervention proposal was created consisting of eight workshops that seek to contribute to improving the quality of life of the victims of the armed conflict in Aguachica Cesar. Conclusions: Recovery in victims of the armed conflict, where emotional stability and mental health are compromised in the midst of extreme situations, it becomes imperative that in order to assume what happened, victims deserve interdisciplinary reparation and accompaniment together with tools developed precisely for them from a vision close to its reality.

Living Laboratory: Youth Narratives for Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Community Resilience from a Decolonial Perspective

Ana María Gutiérrez Escobar — 2025-09-04

This article aims to reflect on the research process known as the Youth Living Laboratory, which, since 2023, has focused on the co-creation of spaces for reflection, collaborative design, and implementation of ideas for innovation and social research. Its focus is on the management of socially relevant knowledge in the areas of peacebuilding, community resilience, and citizenship, in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca department, and its contributions to decolonial and intercultural social work, situated within the scope of youth narratives, based on the management of living memory processes, promoting the intersectional fabric of diversity, and configuring new social forms of inhabiting one’s own territory. In this sense, the results of the problematization of processes of innovation, impact, and social research from the narratives, memories, and intercultural fabrics of young people belonging to the Lab. in a decolonial light will be shared. From this perspective, the laboratory was established as a space for co-construction of ethical-political knowledge, in which youth exercised their epistemic agency by narrating and reinterpreting their realities, articulating community, intercultural and decolonial knowledge that challenges the colonial logic of hegemonic knowledge (Albán Achinte, 2013; Walsh, 2009).

Bystander barriers to sexual harassment on the campus of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala

Numa Dávila Arriaza — 2025-09-04

Bystander behavior in sexual harassment has been widely researched in English speaking countries. However, there is a paucity of research in Spanish-speaking countries. Here, we report the results of an online qualitative study investigating what prevents bystanders from providing help on the campuses of the University of San Carlos Guatemala.
Through an online questionnaire, qualitative data from 1,158 responses from students, teachers, and administrative staff were collected and analyzed. We examine the results in light of their implications for bystander interventions in the Guatemalan university context. In this sense, the participants identified obstacles linked to the degree of sensitivity of the spectator, the per
ception of risk regarding the situation, the lack of support from other spectators and the lack of
institutional support from the university. We will discuss the findings with reference to previous
studies in the Global North and the specific context of Guatemala.

Escucha Activa: Clave para la Participación Ciudadana y la Salud Emocional: Una mirada desde Trabajo Social

Julia Beatriz Bedoya Ramírez — 2025-09-04

El presente artículo de reflexión, se centra en el análisis del papel de la escucha activa como una herramienta fundamental para fortalecer la participación ciudadana y la construcción del tejido social en protección de los Derechos Humanos, mediante un proyecto de interacción social en el marco de las prácticas académicas de Trabajo Social de la Universidad Central en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C; teniendo en cuenta, la escucha comprendida como un proceso de conexión empática y mutua, contribuyendo a la resolución pacífica de conflictos y a la construcción de acuerdos.

Para ello, se implementaron espacios participativos con estudiantes y líderes sociales, quienes compartieron sus experiencias y percepciones relacionadas con la importancia del diálogo de escucha en sus interacciones cotidianas. Los resultados tienen acciones relevantes para la educación y la construcción de comunidades más justas y equitativas.

The social organization of care related to disability in rural settings. Analysis of actors and practices in San Pedro de los Milagros, Antioquia.

Micaela Anahi Maria Aguirre — 2025-09-04

This article arises from an investigation that seeks to understand the configuration of the
social organization of care in the families of persons with disabilities and conditions of dependency in San Pedro de los Milagros, Antioquia, 2023. The social organization of care is defined as the relationship between State, family, community and market in the provision, production and distribution of care services. In the framework of this investigation, this document presents an analysis oriented to the recognition of actors and practices that constitute this interrelation. In this sense, the efforts are concentrated in the dynamics of care starting from the family as principal agent, the community, the municipality and health companies as secondary agents. In this way, practicesof organization of the offer and care are recognized that are redundant in a greater hierarchy of needs and subjects of care in the territory. The rurality emerges from the analytical work as a determining dimension in the distribution of care.

Mafia del ladrillo y ordenamiento territorial: la geografía del poder urbano en Bello

Juan David Muñoz Quintero — 2025-09-04

This article analyzes how, since 2000 and with increasing intensity since 2009, territorial planning in the municipality of Bello has been guided by the logic of the reproduction of national and global capital, generating negative economic and socio-spatial impacts. These dynamics are manifested in the loss of quality of life, the increase in multidimensional poverty, and the consolidation of a socially fragmented city. It also explores how this development model has facilitated the strengthening of illegal armed groups, which between 2019 and 2020 engaged in an intense
confrontation for territorial control. Although homicides have decreased in recent years, forms
of structural violence linked to the land market and illegal land occupation persist. Overall, the
article proposes a critical reading of the city model promoted by local authorities, highlighting the
role of the State as a facilitator of the interests of real estate capital and a key actor in the design
of exclusionary urban development.

Characteristics and worldview of Andean and Mayan families from Colombia and Guatemala

Sonia Elena López Pulgarín — 2025-09-04

The objective of this research was to understand the relationships, characteristics and worldview (Concept of Good Living) of the families of the Ixil indigenous community, Quitche in Guatemala and the Embera Chami families, of the ancestral territory of San Lorenzo in Rio Sucio of the department from Caldas in Colombia and the Quitche region of Guatemala. Methodologically, it was approached from ethnomethodology, to achie
ve an analytical reading of the data obtained through word circles and directed observation.
It was based on a decolonial and intercultural perspective that allowed us to understand the ex
periences from the specific realities of three Embera Chami families and three Quitche, Ixil and
Zutujil families of Mayan descendants from Guatemala. One of its conclusions is the importance of the transmission of intergenerational knowledge to preserve the concept of Good Living.

Accompanying young people in difficulty towards social and labour market insertion Case of the Chifae Association - Tangier (Morocco)

Mohamed Haouari — 2025-09-04

This participatory qualitative study, focusing on the Bir Chifae neighbourhood in Tangier, analyses the intervention of the Chifae Association with young people in vulnerable situations, with the aim of understanding the factors that influence their life trajectories and their social and labour market insertion. Through an action-research methodology, an in-depth understanding of the experiences and perspectives of these young people was obtained, revealing the complexity of the social, economic and institutional factors that limit their opportunities.
The evaluation of Chifae’s practices identified both strengths and weaknesses in its interventions, highlighting the need for a holistic approach combining psychosocial support, vocational training, job brokering and community participation. It also emphasises the importance of adapting support strategies to the specific needs of each young person and strengthening collaboration between local and institutional actors to provide more effective responses. This study provides the field of social work with empirical evidence on the effectiveness of various intervention strategies in the social and labour inclusion of vulnerable young people, underlining the relevance of a multidimensional and collaborative approach that enhances their capacities and aspirations.

Créditos

2025-09-04

Los Sentipensantes

Michael Dwyer — 2025-09-04

An exploratory curriculum called “los sentipensantes” is introduced using microhistories, short stories, Irish parodies and performative acts that attempt to produce new consensus and knowledge in daily life, what Frantz Fanon once called liberating transformations of the everyday (Fanon, 1963). The theoretical framework is based on research first presented by the Colombian Orlando Fals Borda and the Palestinian-American Edward Said that suggests that changes in the structural conditions of society (political, economic, social and cultural) will never occur as a result of mere ideology and that the truth is never afraid to participate in the creation of new thought and understanding in the universe. Above all, this article contends that we must come to accept that ideology and theory just may not be enough in our new post-truth world. When Salman Rush die’s protagonist Quichotte tells us in a weak voice “visions and other phantasmagoria are to be expected”, one of his characters, Lance Makioka, soon adds: “the surreal and even the absurd, now potentially offer the most accurate descriptors of real life” (Rushdie, 2019, pp. 193, 222)

Asovida Prácticas, pedagogías y memorias Una apuesta por la vida la memoria y la paz Desde el oriente antioqueño

Claudia J Rengifo González — 2025-09-04

This article was prepared within the framework of the presentation of reports for the Comprehensive Peace System within the framework of the 2016 Peace Agreements and presents the practices of the Association of Surviving Victims ASOVIDA of Eastern Antioquia, in the key of memory pedagogies that They are born from within the grassroots organizations in defense of the rights of the communities most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia, as a path of peace and resistance that must be recognized from its intrinsic value as epistemological justice with those who are key actors today. In the search for truth, memory and peace, an emphasis is placed on the narrative that is built as a community and all its transformative power.

Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos

María Eumelia Galeano Marín — 2025-09-04

Me siento honrada por la invitación a la inauguración académica del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales y de la Maestría en Intervención Social. Y la acepto con alegría, como forma de gratitud y reciprocidad con la Universidad de Antioquia y con la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas que han sido mi casa, por 50 años, y como un reconocimiento a un sinnúmero de estudiantes, colegas y participantes en procesos de investigación quienes con sus aportes, preguntas y reflexiones han avivado por cerca de 40 años, mi pasión por la investigación social. También reconozco en investigadores y pensadores clásicos y contemporáneos su orientación teórica y metodológica. en esta búsqueda permanente e inagotable por comprender nuestras realidades sociales.

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2025-09-04

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Mónica Castañeda — 2025-09-04

Interview with Dominique Grandgeorge. French social worker. Book l´ecologisation du travail social

Ana Patricia Quintana Ramirez — 2025-09-04

La entrevista se realiza al Profesor Dominique Grandgeorge, trabajador social francés, autor del libro "l´ ´écologisation du travail social. Les établissements sociaux à l´´ épreuve du changement climatique et de l´ effondrement de la biodiversité".