Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social
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description: PROSPECTIVA is a journal of Social Work and social intervention that publishes on a continuous basis, with two issues per volume (year). Its interests are the development of social thought and contemporary social work, in particular that of Latin America, and the dissemination of knowledge that contributes to processes of social transformation.
publisher: Universidad del Valle
language: en
publication name: Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social
issn: 0122-1213
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items: Decoloniality and methodologies of knowledge production in Social Work: The resurgence of the systematization of social experiences and practices
items: Individual plan of reasonable adjustments for a student with low vision at a National Police educational institution in Neiva, Colombia
items: Sustainable local development in a rural community: social praxis through community management in Otuzco, Perú
items: Social services for homeless people in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: an approach based on the Outreach model
items: Homelessness in Latin America (2013-2023): Perspectives and Interventions
items: Social Work Education: Student evaluations of teaching strategies in the Research and Development Nuclei at the University of Chile
items: Attitudes towards Research (EACIN-R): Psychometric Evidence of Social Workers in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
items: Academic perspectives on the under-explored purposes of human trafficking: a literature review from a Social Work perspective
items: Impact of the Chilean military dictatorship on social workers in the Provident Funds: a look at our social welfare (1960-1990)
items: Perceptions and attitudes towards the environment among Social Work students at the University of Alicante, Spain
items: The challenges of Social Work compared to the expressions of the Social Question in Brazil and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century
items: Action 2.0: a serious game for the psychosocial formation of Social Workers in distance learning in Colombia
items: Interrelated violence in multispecies families: a challenge for the Social Work approach
items: Perception of healthcare social work practice by healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study by the Costa del Sol Health Agency in Malaga, Spain
items: Representaciones sociales sobre los roles de género en juventudes rurales: Un estudio colaborativo desde la escuela y la familia en Neiva, Colombia
items: Tierra Grata: An example of territorialization and peacebuilding in post-conflict Colombia
items: Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Imaginary Questionnaire on Social Work in the Colombian Caribbean
items: Community Water Management from the Participation of Peasant Women, in the Municipality of Timbío-Cauca, Colombia
items: Gender-Based Violence: An Analysis of Narratives and Experiences Among University Couples. Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia
items: Recognition and appropriation of rights among Mayanwomen in the context of a solidarity economy: the case ofthe Solares Collective on the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico
items: Coexistence of models of protection in public policy for children in Chile: Towards a rights perspective
items: Aging in Institutions: A Literature Review on the Psychosocial Effects of Institutionalization of Older Adults in Colombia
items: Women’s Participation in the Construction Industry in Colombia: Two Generational Perspectives
items: Caring and Resisting in the Territory: Mental Health and Care in Afro-Descendant Rural Communities in Lopez de Micay, Colombia
items: Resignifying the Field of Family in Social Work Education:
items: Social Work and the gender order: reconfiguration efforts from the Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia
items: Intermediate internships in the training of Social Workers at a religious university in Chile
items: Professional internships of Social Work students at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia: importance, challenges, and lessons learned
items: Impact of traditional games on the social inclusion of migrant minors in Tudela- Navarre, Spain
items: Protection and gender violence: Experience of a group of dual devices users in Córdoba, Argentina

Decoloniality and methodologies of knowledge production in Social Work: The resurgence of the systematization of social experiences and practices
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description: In this article a reflection is made about the coloniality of knowledge and its impact on hegemonic forms of knowledge production within the field of Social Work. From a decolonial perspective, the neoliberal and Eurocentric academic rationality is problematized, which defines the criteria of scientific validity, hierarchizes epistemologies, and marginalizes situated knowledges emerging from professional practice. It aims to recover the systematization of experiences and social practices as a critical methodology historically linked to the identity of Latin American Social Work—which allow not only to understand practices, but also the production of ethical, political, and transformative knowledge. Through the theoretical review the tensions among university, academia, and discipline are analyzed. It also presents a discussion of methodological principles structured in phases, foundations, and tools that enhance systematization as an epistemic counter-hegemonic strategy. Finally, a reading is proposed that explains under which conditions systematization can operate as a counter-hegemonic epistemic strategy in Social Work—not because of the method itself but through its ethical-political orientation, the legitimacy dispute that it sustains, affirming it as a situated way to produce critical knowledge from practice.
subject: ARTICLES
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subject: Social Work
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subject: Systematization of experiences
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subject: Coloniality
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subject: Critical methodology
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subject: Knowledge production
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subject: Epistemology of the South
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creator: Isaac Francisco Ruiz-Muñoz
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20815690
ending page: e20815690
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15690

Individual plan of reasonable adjustments for a student with low vision at a National Police educational institution in Neiva, Colombia
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description: This article describes the experience of implementing the Individual Reasonable Adjustments Plan (PIAR) in the process of including a low-vision student of third-grade at the San Miguel Arcángel School in Neiva, Huila. The research was carried out from a critical-social approach, using a qualitative methodology that recognizes the multiplicity and diversity of assumptions, techniques, and instruments. Its implementation was developed through a systematization design of experiences, structured in five methodological stages: starting point, systematization plan, recovery of the lived process, basic reflections, and arrival points. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews, complemented by the coffee work technique, as a feedback session. The implementation of the PIAR allowed for the strengthening of the student's academic autonomy and self-confidence, the adequacy of of accessible pedagogical resources, the consolidation of institutional and family support networks, and the identification of technological and socio-emotional barriers. It also shows that inclusive education requires the educational system to rethink its architecture, methodologies, pedagogical strategies, and teacher training. Although a normative framework exists, challenges still remain, such as the lack of a funding policy, as well as the lack of an inclusive culture among teachers. Finally, PIAR proved to be a transformative tool that facilitated the student's full participation, highlighting the need for continuity in digital literacy training, emotional support and inter-institutional coordination to ensure effective inclusive education.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: PIAR
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subject: Inclusive education
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subject: Low vision
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subject: Educational accessibility
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creator: Lizeth Lozano-Vaca
creator: Eliana Johana González-Vargas
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-08-18
publication date: 2026-08-18
starting page: e21115665
ending page: e21115665
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15665

Sustainable local development in a rural community: social praxis through community management in Otuzco, Perú
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description: This article analyzes how community management contributes to sustainable local development in a rural community, based on the experience of the inhabitants of Francisco Bolognesi, province of Otuzco, in Perú. The study recognizes that sustainable local development is not limited to technical or economic processes, but constitutes a social construction based on community practices, collective organization and relationship with the territory. In this context, community management is approached as a social praxis that articulates economic, social, and environmental dimensions, expressed in local leadership, organizational capacity, and articulation with State initiatives. The objective of the research is to analyze local sustainable development from community management, considering its economic, social and environmental dimensions. The study corresponds to basic research, with a non-experimental explanatory design and a mixed approach. The sample was made up of the 41 families of the Francisco Bolognesi community. Inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic, and statistical methods were used. A questionnaire, an interview guide and an interview record were applied for data collection, which allowed obtaining quantitative and qualitative information. The results show that community management plays a central role in sustainable local development, reflected in economic, social and environmental advances, especially through the strengthening of community leadership, collective organization and articulation with State projects. It is concluded that community management constitutes a key axis for sustainable local development in rural contexts.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Self-management
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subject: Territorial development
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subject: Rural community
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subject: Local participation
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subject: Rural sustainability
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creator: Rosely Arery Casiano-Guevara
creator: Yoya Betzabe Flores-Pérez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20215577
ending page: e20215577
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15577

Social services for homeless people in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: an approach based on the Outreach model
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description: Homelessness represents one of the most extreme forms of social exclusion, resulting from the interaction of structural, institutional, relational, and individual factors. Mobile Outreach Units operate as key mechanisms for contact, engagement, and direct service delivery within the Outreach model. This article presents the results of a study carried out in Santa Cruz de Tenerife during 2023 to analyze the relationships between different types of care, to identify differences by sex, origin, type of Mobile Outreach Unit /UMA), use of housing resources and the presence of an Individualized Care Plan (PAI). It was also proposed to explore geographical variations, to identify user profiles according to the frequency and nature of interventions, as well as to examine seasonal trends in service provision. A quantitative, non-experimental, observational, descriptive, and retrospective study was carried out based on 450 service users and 28,416 recorded interventions. Nonparametric analyses, Spearman correlations, cluster analysis (k-means), and monthly trend analyses were applied following a rigorous process of debugging, categorizing, and verifying the consistency of records. The results showed that UMA 1 concentrated 73,7 % of attentions while UMA 2 concentrated 26,3 %. Positive correlations were observed between most of the actions, which demonstrated that the UAMs constitute an essential resource for social care in homelessness. The findings provide evidence to improve service planning and to tailor interventions from a gender-sensitive, intercultural, and intersectional perspective. Further mixed methods of research are recommended.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Homeless person
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subject: Outreach intervention
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subject: Mobile Outreach Units
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subject: Social exclusion
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subject: Social integration
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creator: Patricia Espinel-Camacho
creator: José Manuel Díaz-González
creator: Maryurena Lorenzo-Alegría
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20715543
ending page: e20715543
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15543

Homelessness in Latin America (2013-2023): Perspectives and Interventions
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description: Homelessness is a complex phenomenon arising from the convergence of three factors: low income, lack of human development and social exclusion. This study analyses scientific articles on homelessness in Latin America based on a systematic review of literature from five databases from 2013 to 2023. In terms of output, the subject has received limited coverage, despite growing interest since 2017. The focus remains largely economic and class-based without incorporating a gender perspective, a critical approach to neoliberalism and patriarchy, or an intersectional analysis. The care system for the homeless is based on the need-resource model, emphasising the welfare-based approach that remains prevalent in social work. Four areas of intervention related to multidimensional poverty stand out: basic care, housing, occupational therapy, and harm reduction.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Homelessness
  topic: keywords
subject: Street life
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subject: Poverty
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subject: Vulnerability
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subject: Inequality
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subject: Discrimination
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subject: Social intervention
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subject: Health
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creator: Virginia Romero-Plana
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20115346
ending page: e20115346
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15346

Social Work Education: Student evaluations of teaching strategies in the Research and Development Nuclei at the University of Chile
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description: In 2015, the Social Work program at the University of Chile was reopened with an innovative approach that integrates teaching, research, and intervention. Within this framework, the Research and Development Nuclei (R&D Nuclei) arise, curricular instances that combine classroom instruction, work with institutions and autonomous work. By 2023, 88 R&D Nucleus projects have been developed, involving students in training. Focusing on the didactical strategies implemented within the Nucleus, this study aims to identify which are the didactic strategies that, according to the students are mainly used for their training and what assessments they make of each strategy in terms of how they see them as contributing to their skills development. Through a quantitative design, based on a survey answered by students, this work, in terms of findings identifies that group meetings and tutoring with teachers tend to be recognized as central for disciplinary training. In terms of evaluations, students particularly value the teaching accompaniment, which would facilitate the development of research and intervention products and is considered essential for strengthening professional competencies. The paper concludes by discussing implications for a sustainable implementation of the R&D Nucleus model to support disciplinary training in Social Work.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Work Education
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subject: Research and Development Nucleus
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subject: Didactical Strategies
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subject: Evaluation of Didactical Strategies
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creator: Carlos Alejandro Andrade-Guzmán
creator: Catalina Javiera Gutiérrez-Ramírez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-08
publication date: 2026-07-08
starting page: e21315064
ending page: e21315064
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i42.15064

Attitudes towards Research (EACIN-R): Psychometric Evidence of Social Workers in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
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description: The aim of this article is to report the psychometric properties of the Scale of Attitudes towards Research-Revised version in a Colombian population sample. Two instrumental quantitative studies were conducted using a cross-sectional survey methodology. In the first study, the questionnaire was applied to 141 university students, and in the second to 159 students, all belonging to the Social Work program of a private university institution in Cartagena de Indias. The data were subjected to internal consistency and factor structure analysis through exploratory factor analysis (AFE) and confirmatory factor analysis (AFC). The results of the AFE allowed reducing the scale maintaining three dimensions, which were tested by the AFC. The final version of the instrument consisted of 27 items and three dimensions. The model was deemed appropriate according to the goodness-of-fit indices and the reliability coefficients obtained for each subscale and the total scale. This instrument is a reliable and valid tool for assessing the predisposition to research in university students of Social Work in the city.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: Factor analysis
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subject: Validation
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subject: University students
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subject: Research
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creator: Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2024-07-01
publication date: 2024-07-01
starting page: e20113412
ending page: e20113412
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i38.13412

Academic perspectives on the under-explored purposes of human trafficking: a literature review from a Social Work perspective
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description: Human trafficking is a violation of human rights. Understanding of the issue has focused predominantly on sexual exploitation and forced labor. Servile marriage, illegal adoptions, organ trafficking, and forced begging have received less attention, which contributes to their invisibility. This article examines how these forms of trafficking are represented in the literature; to this end, an exploratory review of recent literature was conducted. The analysis identified theoretical perspectives, definitions, attributed causes, assessments, and recommended intervention strategies. The results highlighted the predominance of criminal justice and human rights frameworks. Definitions are primarily constructed from normative perspectives, while causes are associated with structural, cultural, and institutional factors. Moralizing narratives were identified that denounce the normalization of exploitation and highlight the commodification of human beings. The analyzed literature shows fragmented and uneven development, with limited incorporation of critical and situated approaches, which limits a comprehensive and transformative understanding of these forms of trafficking. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen research and intervention from a social work perspective, incorporating critical and situated approaches that make these purposes more visible.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Human trafficking
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subject: Social Work
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subject: Human rights
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subject: Little-explored purposes
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creator: María Camila Cárdenas-Calderón
creator: Vanesa Olarte-Carreño
creator: María Paula Ortiz-Rojas
creator: Juan C. Aceros
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-08-27
publication date: 2026-08-27
starting page: e21215728
ending page: e21215728
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15728

Impact of the Chilean military dictatorship on social workers in the Provident Funds: a look at our social welfare (1960-1990)
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description: This article reviews a variety of statesmen from social workers and other officials belonging to the area of social welfare in Chile, during the transition from the system of Provident Funds to the establishment of the AFP individual capitalization system (Administrator of the Pension Fund) during the 1980s in the context of the military dictatorship. The main objective is to understand the impact that this key event has on the profession of social work and social security profession in Chile up to the present.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: History of social work
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subject: Chile
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subject: Social welfare
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subject: Dictatorship
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subject: Augusto Pinochet
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subject: Administrator of the Pension Fund (AFP)
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creator: Karin Andrea Román-Guajardo
creator: Marlene Rosa Araya-Cuello
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-01-01
publication date: 2025-01-01
starting page: e20714023
ending page: e20714023
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i39.14023

Perceptions and attitudes towards the environment among Social Work students at the University of Alicante, Spain
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description: Social Work is a discipline committed to the well-being of people and the planet. It is a profession that, over the years, has internalized environmental problems as part of its theoretical and practical dialectic. The global crises have brought about a paradigm shift that influences the approach to current social problems. Universities and social work training promote the incorporation of an environmental, critical, and sustainable approach to social and environmental problems. This empirical study of quantitative design and descriptive and explanatory purpose aims to understand the perceptions and attitudes towards the environment by students of the Degree in Social Work of the University of Alicante (Spain) and their perceptions and attitudes about the relationship between environment and social work. The study was carried out through an ad hoc questionnaire composed of 11 questions and 23 measurement variables. Data was analyzed through SPSS. A total of 102 students aged between 20 and 49 participated. The results show students' recognition of and concern for environmental problems, taking into account personal, cultural, and political factors that influence these perceptions, as well as the associations between their attitudes and perceptions and the perception of their own behavior towards the environment. It concludes with the need to strengthen ecosocial thinking in students of Social Work and incorporate their knowledge into professional practice.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social work
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subject: Pro-environmental behavior
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subject: Socio-environmental responsibility
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subject: Sustainable development
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subject: Environmental education
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creator: Elena M. Cortés-Florín
creator: Javier Ferrer-Aracil
creator: Mercedes Cuenca-Silvestre
creator: M. Carmen Pérez-Belda
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-06-13
publication date: 2025-06-13
starting page: e21414756
ending page: e21414756
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i40.14756

The challenges of Social Work compared to the expressions of the Social Question in Brazil and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century
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description: Social work is a profession and a scientific area that acts on the contradictions between capital and labor and on the expressions and refractions of the social question. This article elaborates a critical reflection on the trajectory of Social Work in Brazil and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century. The approach consists of a critical and historical analysis of the development of social work, adopting a methodology based on literature review of the legal frameworks associated with this development, in order to understand and critically expose the contemporary challenges of the profession over the last 25 years. It appears that, in both countries, although marked by different specificities and multidimensional contexts, social work has sought to reaffirm and strengthen its identity, defending especially in Brazil an ethical-political project committed to the working class that guides action (e.g., the promotion of human rights), which has been weakened by the predominance of a neoliberal model generating greater social inequalities, amplifying the expressions of the so-called social question. The current situation, which is highly complex and marked by multiple crises, poses significant challenges to the mission and principles of action of social work. It is therefore necessary for the professional to commit himself to a transformative and emancipating project capable of generating and overcoming states of deprivation through equitable social justice.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Question
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subject: 21st Century
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subject: Brazil
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subject: Portugal
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creator: Ana Arcoverde
creator: Helena Luz
creator: Vanessa Nunes
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: e21715116
ending page: e21715116
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi41.15116

Action 2.0: a serious game for the psychosocial formation of Social Workers in distance learning in Colombia
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description: Gamification, through game design strategies applied in distance learning environments, facilitates the development of specific disciplinary competencies. This article examines the use of serious play Action 2.0 by Social Work students in distance learning to enhance psychosocial skills development. The methodology used was quantitative, using a comparative design between exposed and non-exposed groups to the serious game Action 2.0, composed of 46 students selected by sampling for convenience. The participants discussed potential situations in Social Work, which involve encountering challenges and narratives that require skills like active listening, self-recognition, empathy, and effective communication. As a result, a cognitive-behavioral pedagogical framework based on the ADDIE model (specification, analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) was consolidated, demonstrating high adherence that can create an addiction to serious games. This confirms that serious play is a tool that strengthens the professional and psychosocial competencies of Social Work students, which also provides valuable feedback for the design of future educational interventions.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Gamification
  topic: keywords
subject: Serious play
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subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Distance learning
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subject: Psychosocial skills
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creator: Angela Johana Vargas-Hernández
creator: Viviana Racero-López
creator: Albeiro Aguirre-Ríos
creator: Luisa Fernanda Hernández-Pérez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-24
publication date: 2025-05-24
starting page: e21014601
ending page: e21014601
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i40.14601

Interrelated violence in multispecies families: a challenge for the Social Work approach
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description: This article presents the findings of the research on interrelated violence and the view from Social Work, completed in Colombia in March 2024. It is a qualitative study, situated in the hermeneutic paradigm, and under a documentary review of digital press news in Spanish-speaking countries, a categorical delimitation was made that from the analysis points out as axes of results: the typification of violence in a time window between 2016 to 2024, the context of the social problem, the subjective position of the victims, aggressor and zoo-lidarian community, the care routes for gender violence and animal abuse, and the challenges for the approach from Social Work. In this sense, the main findings refer that in the international framework the countries in which there was a greater trend of interrelated violence were Spain followed by Mexico, and at the national level in the city of Cali followed by Bogota; the way in which gender-based violence, domestic violence or animal abuse are typified - seen in an isolated and not convergent manner, which reduces the connotation of interrelated violence; and the challenges of Social Work for the psychosocial approach.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Animal abuse
  topic: keywords
subject: Interrelated violence
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subject: Intimate partner violence
  topic: keywords
subject: Multispecies family
  topic: keywords
subject: Social work
  topic: keywords
creator: Andrea Mireya Jiménez-Pinzón
creator: Vanessa Catalina Chiguasuque-González
creator: Gineth Paola Sánchez-Cogollo
creator: Karen Daniela Calderón-Amaya
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: e20514091
ending page: e20514091
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i39.14091

Perception of healthcare social work practice by healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study by the Costa del Sol Health Agency in Malaga, Spain
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description: Health Social Work was considered as an essential profesional space in the context of COVID-19 to ensure the well-being of people. This research investigates the perception that interdisciplinary health professionals have about the Social Work professionals of the Costa del Sol Health Agency of the city of Málaga. (Spain). A quantitative methodology was used; it was developed through a descriptive design, using a structured questionnaire administered online during the second half of 2022 (n=246). The results obtained show revealed that the professional practice of Social workers working in the health field responds to a task of support, help, and collaboration that solves problems through empathy and coordination. Among the main conclusions, the relevance of this profession’s response in the hospital environment, that requires greater recognition in the healthcare field is highlighted.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Health Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Perception
  topic: keywords
subject: Recognition
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional Practice
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional Assessment
  topic: keywords
subject: COVID-19
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creator: Antonia Gómez-Mora
creator: Pilar Munuera-Gómez
creator: Esther Bódalo-Lozano
creator: Rosa María García-Navarro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-22
publication date: 2026-01-22
starting page: e21515295
ending page: e21515295
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15295

Representaciones sociales sobre los roles de género en juventudes rurales: Un estudio colaborativo desde la escuela y la familia en Neiva, Colombia
type: item
description: Los planteles educativos rurales constituyen escenarios centrales en la configuración de las representaciones sociales que orientan las relaciones de género y las formas de convivencia juvenil. Allí, las experiencias de vida construidas en la interacción entre familia, escuela y comunidad reproducen roles de género tradicionales que inciden en la desigualdad, la exclusión y diversas expresiones de violencia simbólica. Desde esta perspectiva, se asume el contexto rural como una categoría cuyas dinámicas culturales y relacionales influyen en la construcción de género. Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación cualitativa desarrollada desde un enfoque crítico-social con diseño de etnografía colaborativa. La producción de información se realizó mediante cartografía corporal, entrevistas semiestructuradas y fotografía participativa, instrumentos que permitieron explorar las experiencias, significados y prácticas asociadas a los roles de género en jóvenes rurales de una zona veredal del municipio de Neiva (Huila). El análisis se llevó a cabo a través de la teoría fundamentada, mediante procesos de codificación y categorización. Los resultados evidencian que las representaciones sociales sobre género y roles de género se configuran principalmente en el ámbito familiar reforzándose en espacios escolares y comunitarios rurales, afectando las relaciones individuales y sociales, naturalizando jerarquías y mandatos de género. El estudio visibiliza la necesidad de diseñar estrategias de intervención contextualizadas que reconozcan las particularidades de la ruralidad, fortalezcan el trabajo con las familias y promuevan prácticas educativas inclusivas orientadas a la equidad de género y la prevención de violencias.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social representation
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender roles
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural sociology
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural youth
  topic: keywords
subject: Social change
  topic: keywords
creator: Elizabeth Tengonó-Zamora
creator: Catalina Trujillo-Vanegas
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-14
publication date: 2026-07-14
starting page: e20915563
ending page: e20915563
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15563

Tierra Grata: An example of territorialization and peacebuilding in post-conflict Colombia
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description: This research article aims to make visible the conflict transformation initiatives driven by people in the process of reintegration. For this purpose, the former Territorial Training and Reintegration Area (ETCR) currently known as Vereda Tierra Grata, municipality of Manaure, Cesar, is taken into context. The research was developed from a qualitative approach, using an ethnographic design that allowed direct contact with the community and the application of semi-structured interviews. This methodological approach facilitated the understanding of the various strategies for transforming the conflict and strengthening the social tissue. Among them, territorialization and community rootedness stand out, which have contributed significantly to the process of reincorporation of the 162 signatories of the agreement that came to Tierra Grata. These initiatives represent a hopeful example within the complex Colombian post-conflict landscape.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Conflict Transformation
  topic: keywords
subject: Community Reintegration
  topic: keywords
subject: Self-Management
  topic: keywords
subject: Territorial Peace
  topic: keywords
subject: Historical Memory
  topic: keywords
creator: Valentina Escobar-Avendaño
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: e21215073
ending page: e21215073
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15073

Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Imaginary Questionnaire on Social Work in the Colombian Caribbean
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description: This study aims to analyze the cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire of Imaginaries on Social Work in the general population of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. A quantitative study with descriptive-instrumental scope was divided into two phases: an exploratory analysis with 65 participants and a confirmatory analysis with 100 participants. Validation of the questionnaire included linguistic adaptation, expert judgment, and factor analysis. The findings suggest that the adapted version exhibits adequate validity indices, internal structure, and reliability, with a three-dimensional structure: Socio-vocational Commitment, Ignorance about the profession, and Bureaucratic Management. Factorial reorganization reveals a close relationship between the vocation of service and social justice, thus consolidating a single factor. It is concluded that the adapted version of the questionnaire constitutes a reliable and valid tool in terms of structure to measure the social imaginaries on Social Work in the Colombian context, with relevant implications for the discipline and professional training.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Imaginaries
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Factor Analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Research
  topic: keywords
subject: Validation
  topic: keywords
creator: Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano
creator: Daniela Guzmán-Campos
creator: Andrea Karolina De la Hoz-Rodríguez
creator: Yessica Paola Martínez-Deulufeut
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: e20214778
ending page: e20214778
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.14778

Community Water Management from the Participation of Peasant Women, in the Municipality of Timbío-Cauca, Colombia
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description: Community Water Management in Rural Areas has been strengthened through the recognition and the spaces that rural women are gaining. These women have waged struggles in their territories for water for their communities. Through activities inherent to rural life and intercultural exchange, they have secured spaces for political, economic, social, and environmental participation, making their voices visible through positions, arguments, actions, and discourses that bring to light the real needs of their territories, within processes of resistance rooted in their own actions. The qualitative approach methodology analyzed realities within their contexts, interpreting the meanings and roles each woman plays in water management processes, their perspectives on social, cultural, and political issues, and their standpoints for both mitigating and raising their voices in the face of this reality. Information was collected through visits during different stages of the process, gatherings were held, and stories and lived experiences were gathered from the diversity of their roles. The findings reveal the situation of rural women in their contexts, the challenges they face daily, the stereotypes with which they have been labeled, their resistance and leadership in decision-making, and the ways they define, from their own thinking, categories that identify them. The conclusions highlight and acknowledge situations such as the absence of the State in the management of rural aqueducts, the different systems of oppression, discrimination, and types of violence that seek to overshadow the role they play in their communities and in society.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Women
  topic: keywords
subject: Peasants
  topic: keywords
subject: Interculturality
  topic: keywords
subject: Water
  topic: keywords
subject: Community Management
  topic: keywords
subject: State
  topic: keywords
creator: Juan Pablo Paz-Concha
creator: Heilen Raquel Benavides-Velasco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: e20114635
ending page: e20114635
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.14635

Gender-Based Violence: An Analysis of Narratives and Experiences Among University Couples. Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia
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description: The objective of this study was to analyze gender-based violence in heterosexual intimate relationships among female students at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, based on their narratives and experiences, with an emphasis on the types of violence and their relational dynamics. The methodology was qualitative, interpretive in scope, and based on a case study design; data collection techniques included semi-structured interviews and focus groups, conducted with 40 participants selected through non-probabilistic convenience sampling. The results revealed that gender-based violence in intimate partner relationships manifests as systematic and progressive relational practices, primarily through psychological, symbolic, sexual, economic, and patrimonial violence, in which mechanisms of control, coercion, dependency, abuse, and normalized concepts of distress are evident. These behaviors do not manifest as isolated or episodic events, but rather as relational practices that consolidate asymmetrical relationships, reinforcing patterns of subordination and hindering the recognition and termination of the violent bond. Likewise, it was identified that these types of transgressions operate as mechanisms for the progressive erosion of bodily autonomy, self-esteem, and the capacity for agency.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Couple
  topic: keywords
subject: Relationships
  topic: keywords
subject: Violence
  topic: keywords
subject: University
  topic: keywords
creator: Jhon Fredy Coronado-Pulido
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-14
publication date: 2026-07-14
starting page: e20615502
ending page: e20615502
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15502

Recognition and appropriation of rights among Mayanwomen in the context of a solidarity economy: the case ofthe Solares Collective on the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico
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description: In Latin America, the solidarity economy is proposed as an alternative to prevailing development models, articulating productive practices with cooperation, self-management, and sustainability. In the Yucatán Peninsula, Mayan women play a fundamental role in the family economy and in the transmission of cultural knowledge, generating collective processes that transcend the economic. This study analyzes the experience of the Solares collective organization, established in Sotuta in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a self-employment strategy through the recovery of backyard gardens for self-consumption and the marketing of agrochemical-free agricultural products. The research was conducted with a qualitative approach, combining seven months of participant observation and four in-depth interviews with the founders, complemented by narrative analysis using ATLAS.ti 25. The results indicate that participation in Solares fosters subjectivation processes, where women redefine their personal time, access leisure and self-care, and build mutual support networks. At the same time, forms of appropriation and recognition of rights emerge: participants exercise collective deliberation, manage their own resources, and expand their economic and social autonomy, challenging traditional gender norms.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Solidarity economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Mayan women
  topic: keywords
subject: Subjectivation
  topic: keywords
subject: Appropriation of rights
  topic: keywords
creator: Edwin Alberto Fernández-Sarabia
creator: Rocío Ivonne Quintal-López
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20515482
ending page: e20515482
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15482

Coexistence of models of protection in public policy for children in Chile: Towards a rights perspective
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description: This article reflects on the models of protection that guide public policy on for children in Chile, paying particular attention to the theoretical and epistemological foundations. that support its assessment. From a critical perspective and with a focus on rights, it is argued that evaluation practices should not be understood as exclusively technical procedures, but rather as expressions of conceptual-epistemological constructions that shape ways of interpreting the child as a subject, state action, and public responsibility. It is assumed that that the effectiveness of protection models depends on the coherence and robustness of their theoretical-epistemological frameworks, as well as on the institutional capacity of the state to ensure stable and articulated planning processes, along with consistent implementation that aligns with these frameworks. Given the evidence of instability, discontinuity, and insufficient integration in the policies evaluated, an analytical matrix is proposed that allows to recognize the evaluative rationalities at play and their contribution—or lack thereof—to the construction of a system of protection that is, integral, sustainable, and focused on children and their rights.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Protection models
  topic: keywords
subject: Public policy
  topic: keywords
subject: Childhood
  topic: keywords
subject: Children’s rights
  topic: keywords
subject: State
  topic: keywords
creator: Valeria Andrea Villegas-Alarcón
creator: Alixon David Reyes-Rodríguez
creator: Massiel Carolina Venegas-Hernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20415473
ending page: e20415473
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15473

Aging in Institutions: A Literature Review on the Psychosocial Effects of Institutionalization of Older Adults in Colombia
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description: This article presents a qualitative literature review aimed at understanding the psychosocial effects of institutionalization of the elderly in Colombia, through the analysis of academic publications made between 2015-2025. From an interpretive perspective, the main dimensions that shape the experience of ageing in institutional contexts are examined, recognizing that this process is influenced by human rights factors, the cultural perspectives, and gender relations present in the life history of older people. Thus, the categories of analysis include: self-image, self-esteem, and psychological well-being; family dynamics and institutionalization; support networks and social support; psychosocial factors; mental health and ageism; living conditions and socioeconomic context; and, finally, cultural, gender, and human rights perspectives. The study reveals that institutional aging substantially impacts autonomy, identity, and sense of belonging of elderly people due to the loss of family ties, the persistence of social stigmas associated with old age, and also institutional dynamics focused on rigid and homogeneous care routines. Likewise, factors such as emotional, disengagement, migration, and economic precariousness determine admission to geriatric care facilities. In contrast, family and community support networks act as protective factors against the isolation and loneliness of the elderly. It is concluded that it is necessary to transform geriatric institutions into spaces oriented toward the recognition, participation, and guarantee of rights, overcoming traditional assistencialist approaches.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Older adult institutionalization
  topic: keywords
subject: Elderly people
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychosocial factors
  topic: keywords
subject: Public policies
  topic: keywords
subject: Colombia
  topic: keywords
creator: July Vanessa Romero-Moreno
creator: Daniela María Calle-Fernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-29
publication date: 2026-07-29
starting page: e21015456
ending page: e21015456
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15456

Women’s Participation in the Construction Industry in Colombia: Two Generational Perspectives
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description: This study aimed to analyze the participation of women in the construction sector in Colombia, comparing the experiences of professionals experienced in the guild with the perceptions of students of management of civil works and construction management programs. Methodologically, a qualitative approach was used with cross-sectional design not experimental, from two generational perspectives. The sample was determined with 20 experienced professional women and 20 young female students for a total of 40. The data was collected using an online form and then a content analysis was carried out by iterative coding. The codes were created from semantic and conceptual similarities. From a comprehensive examination of these codes, subsequently grouped by thematic affinities, three central categories emerged: Male tradition, wage and labour equity and female strengths. This process took place in two distinct phases: first with the sample of experienced professional women and then with the young student population. Then a systematic contrast was made to identify and describe similar perceptions and identify the main differences between the two groups.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Gender Gap
  topic: keywords
subject: Equity and Inclusion
  topic: keywords
subject: Sexual Stereotype
  topic: keywords
subject: Construction Industry
  topic: keywords
subject: Working Woman
  topic: keywords
subject: Civil Works
  topic: keywords
creator: Edward Yecid Torres-Nova
creator: Angela Yolima Camargo-Fonseca
creator: Danna Catalina Ángel-Rubiano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: e21615164
ending page: e21615164
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15164

Caring and Resisting in the Territory: Mental Health and Care in Afro-Descendant Rural Communities in Lopez de Micay, Colombia
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description: This study aimed to understand the constitutive elements of mental health and the caregiving practices developed by six community mothers, between 30 and 60 years old, residing in the suburb of Chuare, in López de Micay, Colombia. A qualitative methodology was employed, using the Photovoice technique; through reflexive thematic analysis, recurring patterns were identified, enabling the construction of meaningful categories based on the participants’ experiences. The findings reveal that the participants hold a multifaceted understanding of the concept of care and mental health in relation to motherhood, health, and well-being. The study thus demonstrates that care and mental health are shaped by situated and relational practices that are deeply influenced by gender, culture, and territory. In this sense, community mothers emerge as fundamental agents in fostering collective well-being, integrating traditional knowledge, affective bonds, and daily practices that sustain life.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Practices of care
  topic: keywords
subject: Mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: Community mothers
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural Communities
  topic: keywords
subject: Photovoice
  topic: keywords
creator: Milly Yesenia Garces-Riascos
creator: Eliana Isabel Bedoya-Durán
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-07-01
publication date: 2026-07-01
starting page: e20315237
ending page: e20315237
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi42.15237

Resignifying the Field of Family in Social Work Education:
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description: This paper is part of the research project: Family training for social workers in programs in the Western Pacific region affiliated with CONETS, 2023. It aims to understand the concept of family in training process for Social Work, which will strengthen teaching, research, and practice processes, resignifying knowledge to improve the training of students in this discipline. To this end, relevant data related to training were analyzed from two lines of reflection: the first, places of knowledge in the family (individual and family, theories and intervention processes, transversality); and the second, tensions between theoretical and theoretical-practical modalities in training. The general conclusion is that family training must take into account the social reality of the context, validate its diversity through interdisciplinary curricula, unravel power mechanisms in family representations, and construct discourses from the relational democratization with ethical and political commitment in professional education training.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Family
  topic: keywords
subject: Curriculum development
  topic: keywords
subject: Intervention
  topic: keywords
subject: Democratization
  topic: keywords
creator: Alba Lucía Marín-Rengifo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
starting page: e21815219
ending page: e21815219
doi: 10.25100/prts.vi41.15219

Social Work and the gender order: reconfiguration efforts from the Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia
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description: This article aims to analyze the role of social work in the processes of reconfiguring the gender order at the Universidad del Valle. The gender order, as a social and symbolic structure that organizes the particular way in which higher education institutions operate, is based on social relations and power relations that traverse the bodies, sexualities, and identities of the subjects who inhabit these settings. The article is part of doctoral research that studied the case of this public higher education institution and the configuration and reconfiguration of its gender order between 1980 and 2020. The research was guided by feminist ethnography and historical sociology approaches and built knowledge through document review and interviews with women from the University with academic and activist backgrounds. In doing so, it identified significant moments in each of the four decades observed that have an impact on the continuous movement of the gender order, allowing us to glimpse the active and persistent presence of the profession and discipline of social work, through its teaching staff, in processes that confront and fracture the androcentric order of the Universidad del Valle. It is a disciplinary space akin to alternative epistemologies, problematizing power structures motivated by the capacity for agency and academic and intellectual influence of female professors who imbue each space with disciplinary meaning.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Gender order
  topic: keywords
subject: University
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary social work
  topic: keywords
creator: Adriana Granados-Barco
creator: Alba Nubia Rodríguez-Pizarro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Prospectiva. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-02
publication date: 2026-03-02
starting page: e20715202
ending page: e20715202
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15202

Intermediate internships in the training of Social Workers at a religious university in Chile
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description: The article examines the intermediate social work practices as scenarios in which key dimensions of vocational training are articulated and stressed. It is proposed that these spaces allow o problematize institutional, ethical and methodological challenges, and explore different ways of understanding the critical thinking in the disciplinary field. The research adopts a qualitative approach, cross-sectional design and descriptive scope, based on the analysis of practice reports and focus groups with students of the Adventist University of Chile. Through interpretative strategies, it is investigated how students express their experiences in the face of challenges presented at the different levels of professional intervention defined by the curricular network. The study shows that intermediate practices oscillate between the technical application of models and the construction of critical positions, revealing formative tensions around the use of theory, professional role and dialogue with the institutional approach. Among the training challenges identified, the following stand out: the need to deepen the epistemological and political understanding of theoretical frameworks, strengthen structural analysis and promote a critical reflection on the professional role oriented towards social transformation.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Critical thinking
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional practice
  topic: keywords
subject: Social intervention
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Service
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional Education
  topic: keywords
creator: Simi del Carmen Jiménez-Carrasco
creator: Ariela Anais Parra-Merino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: e21115162
ending page: e21115162
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15162

Professional internships of Social Work students at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia: importance, challenges, and lessons learned
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description: For the Social Work Program at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), professional practice is consolidated as a fundamental process through which future professionals not only materialize the epistemological, theoretical, and methodological elements acquired in their training, they also develop and acquire new skills inherent in the occupational profile, which contributes to their comprehensive development. This article is the result of a qualitative research, with historical-hermeneutic methodological approach, from a documentary strategy, and with information collected through a questionnaire. The objective is to reveal the importance, challenges, and learning of UPB Social Work students in their professional practices between 2018 and 2023. The findings highlight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that spurred innovation, mainly technological mediation and questioning of traditional paradigms. The direct contributions of the practices to Social Work fields, institutions, and communities are highlighted; the challenges are related to administrative, training-curricular, and research-intervention challenges; learning is identified within the framework of being, knowing, doing, and know-how. In addition, the professional practices contribute directly to the curricular management, nourish the disciplinary reflection by connecting the academy with social reality, and strengthen the professional and human skills of future Social Workers, preparing them to face complex challenges with flexibility, recursively and a deep commitment to justice and social transformation.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional practices
  topic: keywords
subject: Contributions, challenges and lessons learned from the practices.
  topic: keywords
creator: Diana Marcela Jiménez-Martínez
creator: Isabel Álvarez-Posada
creator: Carlos Adrián Patiño-Gallego
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: e20815160
ending page: e20815160
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15160

Impact of traditional games on the social inclusion of migrant minors in Tudela- Navarre, Spain
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description: This study analyses the impact of an intervention based on traditional games on the social inclusion and cultural cohesion of migrant minors living in a reception center. The objective was to assess to what extent the guided practice of traditional games promotes interaction, sense of belonging and cultural awareness in contexts of diversity. The methodology used was a quasi-experimental design with pre and post measurements without a control group, developed in a center managed by the Red Cross in Tudela with the participation of 13 migrant children between 6 and 17 years old. The data collection tools included standardized questionnaires, participant observation and a structured checklist aimed at recording collaborative, communication and compliance behaviours. The results showed a significant improvement in the quality of social relations and group cohesion, especially among children with low initial interaction. There was also an increase in knowledge of Spanish traditions and games and a more active participation in outdoor activities. However, family participation was limited, which is an area for future improvement. Despite the small sample, the results suggest that these interventions are effective and applicable in other cross-cultural contexts. Therefore, it is recommended to integrate traditional games as an educational resource to promote inclusion and improve coexistence in diverse environments.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Social inclusion
  topic: keywords
subject: Play
  topic: keywords
subject: Migrants
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural heritage
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural diversity
  topic: keywords
subject: Intercultural education
  topic: keywords
creator: Eloy Bermejo-Malumbres
creator: Alba Lapeña-Antón
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: e21015159
ending page: e21015159
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i41.15159

Protection and gender violence: Experience of a group of dual devices users in Córdoba, Argentina
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description: This article recounts an experience of participant observation within the framework of a doctoral research process on protection policies in gender-based violence. The experience was carried out between May and August 2023 in Córdoba-Argentina, a state institution dedicated to addressing gender-based violence. Observations were developed in workshops aimed at dual device users, a precautionary measure that attempts to end high-risk violence situations. The results reveal difficulties in accessing the measure related to a lack of access to information by those who report violence; obstacles in the placement of an ankle on those reported; continuity of situations of restriction of social participation of users, among others.
subject: ARTICLES
  topic: section
subject: Violence gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Public policies
  topic: keywords
subject: Protection
  topic: keywords
subject: Dual devices
  topic: keywords
subject: Participant observation
  topic: keywords
creator: Denise Soledad Paz-Ruiz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 PROSPECTIVA. Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-06-17
publication date: 2025-06-17
starting page: e21314681
ending page: e21314681
doi: 10.25100/prts.v0i40.14681