Professional Practices in Processes of Psychosocial Assistance to the Population Displaced by Sociopolitical Violence in Colombia

Abstract

The article discusses the social practices in which knowledge regarding interventive actions is built by Social Workers who carry out complex psychosocial assistance processes. The starting point of the study is that social practices are the means through which a social agent fosters change in a situation initially conceived as problematic. Said practices show the heterogeneous composition of the reflexivity found institutional programs aimed at providing assistance to persons displaced by the armed conflict in Colombia.

Keywords

• atención psicosocial
• intervinientes sociales
• desplazamiento forzado
• prácticas sociales
• saberes de acción
• violencia sociopolítica