Abstract

QUINTERO VELASQUEZ, Angela María. Resiliencia: Contexto no clínico para trabajo social. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2005, vol.3, n.1, pp.73-94. ISSN 1692-715X.

Resilience is a new term, but not the phenomenon it refers to. This concept, which arose by the middle of the last century, was taken from the natural sciences but is already included in the social field. Resilience offers research and intervention alternatives to all professionals, but it is not yet a homogeneous concept. The concept of resilience represents a paradigm change: it focuses on strengths, not on the deficit or problem. It involves individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions, so that they become part of the solution, together with the all internal and external resources available to them, in order to face critical situations of all types. In Latin America, the idea of individual resilience is left aside, and the idea of familial or relational, communitarian, and even Andean and managerial resilience is developed. Family resilience implies significant emotional bonds, ethical conduct, spiritual support and ecological context. The family's resilient factors are cohesion, communication, adaptation and affectivity. In contemporary Social Work and other Human Development professions, social constructionism upholds the principle that people's ability to endure tasks and problems that they confront every day should be strengthened. Practitioners in these areas are qualified to act in non-clinical contexts of socio-familial attention: reception-orientation, evaluation, prevention, promotion and education. Resilience is assumed by them as an approach and as a methodological strategy.

Keywords : Resilience; non-clinical context; clinical context; social work; family, multidisciplinarity; systemic social therapy.

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