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Book SynopsisThis book takes a new, critical, and multidisciplinary look at experiences and meanings of social intervention in different social contexts, taking the approaches of social constructionism as a theoretical approach. The volume collects the results of theoretical-practical experiences that social science professionals with critical and constructionist visions linked to social work intervention have carried out in different spaces. It considers the way social work intervention models are built, their foundation, and their application. It provides the findings on tested intervention models built according to the basis of social constructionism in specific social scenarios, providing interesting findings that show intervention alternatives beyond traditional approaches. The social intervention strategies discussed take place in diverse situations, including health recovery and reconstruction in breast cancer, family abandonment issues of institutionalized adolescents, institutional care of refugee families, women caregivers of children with disabilities, men who exercise violence, and more.
Table of Contents1. Social Constructionism: Intervention in Social Reality and Diversity 2. Social Intervention from Social Constructionism: Building Intervention Models 3. New Challenges to Participatory Action Research in Academia: Notes from the Field 4. Health Recovery and Reconstruction in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Social Constructionist Approach 5. The Erotic-Amorous Relationships of Young University Students in Saltillo: A Constructionist Approach Applied to the Investigation of Their Communicative Practices 6. Narratives of Family Abandonment: A Constructionist Intervention in Institutionalized Adolescents 7. The Resilience That Is Built in the Interaction of Migrant Children and Adolescents: A View from the Institutional Care of Refugee Families 8. The Needs Felt by Female Breast Cancer Survivors Participating in a Reflective Communicational Support Group in Saltillo, Mexico 9. Social Reconstruction of Women Caregivers of Children with Disabilities: A Model from Socio-Constructionist Intervention 10. Social Constructionism and Male Narratives in Reflection Groups for Men Who Exercise Violence towards Their Partners in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 11. Qualitative Constructionist Evaluation of Social Intervention Projects
