Abstract

OLIVARES-ESPINOZA, Bárbara  and  MORALES-RETAMAL, Camilo. Critical analysis of residential care interventions in Chile. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.2, pp.44-70.  Epub Aug 01, 2022. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.20.2.5070.

The objective of this research is to understand how intervention practices with children and their families are organized in residential care homes. Indepth interviews were conducted with implementing partners, designers and specialists and discourse analysis was applied. The results evidence he-terogeneous interventions and indicate that direct work with children is organized in a continuum. Subjectivizing practices, enable agency, identity and psychic support. Desubjectivizing practices contribute to processes of objectification and uprooting. Family interventions vary depending on the approach of each institution. It is concluded that teams can improve the quality of their work if other institutional conditions are generated and the agency capacity of children and their families is re-cognized, with care being a task that also involves the State and communities.

Keywords : Adolescence; child care; Chile; child welfare.

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