Abstract:
Los últimos años se han caracterizado por una gran crisis de refugiados en todo el mundo. La exposición a factores de estrés previos al viaje, viaje y reasentamiento pone a los niños refugiados y a sus familias en riesgo de desarrollar trastornos emocionales y de conducta. Decenas de miles de perso... Ver más
The last few years have been characterized by a great refugee crisis throughout the world. Exposure to stress factors prior to travel, travel and resettlement puts refugee children and their families at risk of developing emotional and behavioural disorders. Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their country because of the war, and they were facing one traumatic event after another: aftermath of the war, abandonment of their homes, loss of work and property and of loved ones, destruction of social support networks, subjection to mafia abuses, subhuman living conditions, facing vital risks, etc. All this with the aggravating circumstance that they are long-term stressful life events, so their effects on health in general, and mental health in particular, are much greater. In the case of children, the phenomenon of migration is much more serious, since it implies an evolutionary rupture, psychological traumas, school desertion, loss of identity, difficulties for integration into the host society. Throughout the proposal of intervention that is exposed, the objectives and intervention of the occupational therapist are explained in four phases of the process of adaptation of children in their new surroundings, and the use of the game with puppets is presented as a strategy for the prevention of emotional or behavioural disorders that may arise in the future, since it presents benefits such as play, creativity and symbolic language, as well as contributing to the return of enjoyment, joy, will, inner strength, openness of awareness and resumption of self-determination, and work with the puppet, facilitates the creation of patterns of coping with new realities and self-transformation, for emotional well-being and the reconstruction of the senses of life.
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