Refortalecimiento: Beyond prevention, Empowerment and Intervention in an Impoverish Community in Puerto Rico

Q2 Social Sciences

Revista Colombiana de Psicologia Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.15446/rcp.v31n1.88726

Carlos Enrique Vázquez-Rivera, Jacquelinee Gresse Rojas-Livia

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Abstract

Refortalecimiento is a strategy for transformation that started with a debate with the empowerment theory. We have been clarifying the notion of refortalecimiento from experiences at communities and academic’s scenarios. As a result, we need to re-imagine some of our concepts to address the consequences of inequalities. In this article, we will present some reflections about three concepts: intervention, prevention model, and empowerment theory based in an Intervention-Investigation (I-I) realized in a community with a group of mothers of children with disabilities (diverse abilities) in an impoverish community in Puerto Rico. We confirmed the need to reevaluate the impact of different concepts/perspectives operating within the project that undermine the implementation process. We learned that the beauty of this process resides on the reciprocity and the fortalezas (strengths) that takes place within all the people involved. But we also find out neoliberal values as: individualism, competition, and everyone for themselves presented great obstacles to overcome discrimination and disparities. How to cite this article: Vázquez-Rivera, C. & Rojas-Livia, J. (2021). Refortalecimiento: Beyond prevention,empowerment and intervention in an improverish community in Puerto Rico. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 31 (1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v31n1.88726

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改革经济:波多黎各贫困社区的预防、赋权和干预

Refortalecimiento是一种转型战略，始于与赋权理论的辩论。我们已经从社区和学术场景的经验中澄清了“改革经济”的概念。因此，我们需要重新设想我们的一些概念，以解决不平等的后果。在这篇文章中，我们将提出一些关于三个概念的思考:干预，预防模式和授权理论基于干预调查(I-I)在波多黎各一个贫困社区的一群残疾儿童(不同能力)的母亲的社区实现。我们确认有必要重新评估在项目中运行的不同概念/观点的影响，这些概念/观点会破坏实施过程。我们了解到，这个过程的美妙之处在于所有参与其中的人之间的互惠和力量。但我们也发现，新自由主义价值观如:个人主义、竞争和人人为自己，为克服歧视和不平等提供了巨大的障碍。本文引用方式:Vázquez-Rivera, C. & Rojas-Livia, J.(2021)。改革改造:波多黎各改善社区的预防、赋权和干预。哥伦比亚研究Psicología, 31(1)， 109-124。https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v31n1.88726

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Revista Colombiana de Psicologia Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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2.00

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52 weeks

期刊介绍： The Revista Colombiana de Psicología (RCP) aims to reach educational and cultural institutions interested in the psychological science, as well as psychologists and students of psychology or related disciplines. The goal of the journal is to increase public knowledge about psychology in Latin America by publishing original, peer-reviewed, articles within the several fields of psychology. In this way, RCP aims at creating a stronger academic community in this field in Latin America and to spread state-of-the-art research agendas at the international level. RCP publishes empirical and theoretical works that follow the guide lines accepted by the different scientific and theoretical perspectives in psychology, and presented as essays, meta-analysis, literature reviews and empirical studies.