Abstract

SOSA, Fernando Mier; YACOSA, Sonia  and  MICHEL, Mariela. Being and staying at a shelter: the group process in a work team support intervention. Vínculo [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.2, pp. 1-10. ISSN 1806-2490.  http://dx.doi.org/10.32467/issn.19982-1492v18nesp.p160-170.

This work is a critical reflection on an intervention carried out at a night shelter of the Homeless Assistance Program (PASC), under the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES), aimed at the socio-cultural/labour reintegration of the users. The intervention was carried out with the work team (coordinator, technicians and educators) upon request of the Coordinator to the Photolanguage Department of the Uruguayan Association of Psychopathology and Psychiatry of Children and Adolescents (APPIA). The methodology articulated Photolanguage, words and Psychodrama. The discourse of the participants was analyzed without disclosing their identities. There were working conditions that jeopardized their occupational health; they involved a very demanding job combined with a lack of background and resources in the institutional system. It is a pioneering work that requires coping with error in extreme situations. Participants experienced an increase in their self-confidence which was necessary to open new pathways in a challenging territory. Participants placed value on hands-on experience, on going beyond what was already accomplished by creating new knowledge that can contribute to enhance the interaction with other professionals and institutions to improve future programs.

Keywords : shelter; mediation; care; Photolanguage; Psychodrama.

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