The meaning of death in children who have experienced violence
Keywords:
Violencia, muerte, psicología infantil, violence, death, child psychologyAbstract
This research project describes me meaning that death has for children from poor areas and who have had a dose contact with violence.
It was conducted with 32 cases of children from both sexes, aged 6-12, selected from neighborhoods in Barranquilla that are characterized for hosting families that meet the required criteria for our research, for either having been forced out of their land or due to any other violence-related circumstance.
Information was gathered through interviews, reconstructing biographies, and emphasizing in aspects related to interpersonal relationships, feelings and concepts related to death, close calls, and relevant experiences derived from me latter.
In order to understand the phenomenon, a brouwerian concept of meaning was initially taken, considering such as a system shaped by the willing states of a person in which the symbolic elements of culture are logged.
On the other hand, violence is conceived as an ordinary space in social life that makes sense when a meaning is searched in the surrounding world. Supported on Berger and Luckman, emphasis is made on the intersubjectivity, on the value that interaction and communication with others have in everyone's daily lives, and on the possibility that each human act has to be present, in life and to modify the world.
In synthesis, this research project describes us a scope in the one that the children:
-They devaluate the life.
-They remain in alert state anticipating the danger.
-They conceive the authority like a danger more.
-They understand the death with a concrete and realist vision.
-The mediations and religious explanations are not significant.
-They adopt contrary positions, the aggressiveness or the apathy, according to each case.
-In spite of everything they show hope for the change.
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