Interventions on resilience and family role at psychosocial risk on children and adolescents in Latin America

Abstract

Resilience is the ability to overcome adverse events and emerge stronger, his study has explored individual, family and community capacities. For this reason, a review was carried out, describing the interventions on family and resilience in vulnerable populations carried out in Latin America, based on empirical references, reports and conferences. The findings consisted of eighteen jobs, the main beneficiaries being adolescents, the violation most intervened was psychosocial risk, promoting individual protective skills in workshops. A poor link was found between the family, the violation and the reparatory process. Few programs tended to reinforce the authority of a responsible adult, generally the mothers, which invites us to reflect on the maintenance of hegemonic stereotypes in the programs. Little coincidence was identified in the intervention times, they were common outpatient programs, the most recurrent theoretical perspective was the family ecosystem, curiously a minority made comprehensive diagnoses that considered the subject, the peers, the family and the environment. This work aims to provide a tool for the design of future interventions from this perspective.