Resumen

CARDONA DUQUE, Héctor Henry; SEPULVEDA RUIZ, Sandra Milena; ANGARITA VARELA, Adriana Lucía  y  PARADA BANOS, Arturo José. Mental health and changing world of life in a scene of violence and social policy. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2012, vol.6, n.1, pp.47-62. ISSN 1900-2386.

This research is presented in order to understand how political violence has changed the viotuna community's world life, the mental health conditions. From the qualitative phenomenological perspective, depth interviews were conducted to community members and focus groups from the socially representative sectors. The findings indicate that political violence add a significant effect not only in terms of individual mental health but also from the community that causes a break in the support networks that impact the subjective idea of welfare, thus the idealized world of life, is marked with signs of intergenerational fear, loneliness, anger and need for revenge.

Palabras clave : Mental health; life's world; political violence; social violence.

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