La psicoterapia sistémica y el arte: estudio de caso de una familia en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano.

Abstract

The present investigation-intervention is part of the research line of the Macroproject of "Family histories and narratives in diversity of contexts" of the Master's program in Clinical and Family Psychology of Santo Tomas University in which the changes in the functioning of a family that has experienced events of the Colombian armed conflict as part of its process of life adaptation, where art was the mediator between the experience lived and the experience narrated, building changes in family functioning from the artistic therapeutic strategies with a focus systemic in a case study through qualitative research. From the development of a therapeutic process of six (6) scenarios in eight (8) meetings, with a family in forced displacement condition; design that was built for each encounter to be executed in four scenes; There was also an intervention script, observation matrix for the therapeutic team that was as a spectator in the intervention and a matrix of analysis of each artistic product. Understanding as variations with respect to communication patterns and the emergence of novel stories based on the understanding of the system in the face of the different vicissitudes of the passing of life, they 8 account for the emergence of capacities at the individual, family and community level that enabled them to face the different situations mobilizing the family towards the evolution and self-organization, while the systemic artistic therapeutic strategies emerged as a determined plan for the therapeutic intervention, strengthening one of them to open up changes in the first and second order, as they make possible the re signification of the experience lived from the co-construction of new stories.