Psychosocial assistance for children and adolescents in the streets of Peru.

Reinforcement and professionalization of the team of social workers and enhancement of the capacity of psychosocial assistance for children and adolescents, victims of family violence in the context of the social violence in Ayacucho. This violence is, in this part of Peru, strongly linked to and can be seen (in its intensity and frequency in comparison with other poor living situations elsewhere) as a consequence of the internal war in the country between state and terrorism. Almost all of the families in Ayacucho (the place of origin of the most violent terroristic group, the Sendere Luminoso, very active in the eighties and nineties) are victimized by one or by both of the parties in the conflict. They are traumatized; and although, officially the internal war is over, this traumatisation has permanent psychosocial consequences for a lot of the family members, in the first, second or third generation. The aim of the project is to work out good psychological tools for diagnostics of the traum problems in children and adolescents and to work out good and largely useful methods of psychosocial attendance to families and to larger groups of young people, victims of this kind of violence.

Keywords:trauma, familie geweld, straatkinderen, Peru

Disciplines:Applied psychology, Psychiatry and psychotherapy, Nursing, Other paramedical sciences, Clinical and counselling psychology, Other psychology and cognitive sciences