Pensar en la intervención en crisis: Una propuesta desde intervenciones post desastres naturales de Chile y México

Abstract

Living conditions in cities have brought opportunities and spaces for development, but they have also generated daily risks. Sometimes we are faced with natural events that have a devastation character. They can be, for example: fires, floods, as well as earthquakes, which are unpredictable and threatening. These situations are experienced by children with impotence, they feel helpless and incapable, hence the importance of proposing indications for psychological interventions in the face of catastrophic events. This work is fundamental for children to learn, firstly, to preserve themselves and help others and, secondly, to generate actions that allow them to mean these events, trying to learn about their capacities and this becomes a transforming experience for the development of cognitive strategies, as well as emotional resources. The objective will therefore be to prevent the experience from becoming traumatic. In this article we present the recovery of two intervention experiences with children, incorporating the dimension of the body symbolized towards expression via art and words and considering the axis of participation as a transversal theme in all intervention. It narrates the work with those children who suffered a great fire in Chile and then the experiences of earthquakes in Mexico.