Interrelated violence in multispecies families: a challenge for the Social Work approach

Abstract

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.