Intervenciones psicosociales con personas en situación de calle: El cuidado como categoría de análisis

Abstract

From the institutional framework that runs the social-healthcare policy with homeless adult population in Buenos Aires city, there are implemented intervention practices mediated through the use of social representations of homeless people (PSC) crystallized in the image of irresponsibility, vagrancy and self inadequacy. The chronical situation of living in the streets is conducting into transitory social links and affective lability, and the intervention practices of caring take to consider beneficiaries like object of control and standardization, and thus they are converted as care receivers. Through participative methodologies, in the frame of an action research project about the paths of homeless people, we present from the protagonists perspective, the problematizing of interventions and making visible the set of self caring practices that homeless people develop in their daily lie, including in the field of problems about caring, the perspective that doesn't reduce caring to work or homework, but instead as a social right and the construction of citizenship.