Identifier: TDX:721
Authors:
Ponce Alifonso, Carmen
Abstract:
This research wants to be a reflexion on didactic intervention that, in the field of the processes of social integration, has been developed in recent years in our country, with special reference to Catalonia. This intervention tries to realize changes in the social reality, orientated to improve the living conditions and the welfare of the citizens. We have focused on the intervention that is carried out with children and adolescents.In its beginnings, the treatment of the minors was based on a charitable-welfare model. When they presented a problematic situation, the solution was their internment and, therefore, the separation from their family environment. This ideology has dominated in Spain for long time ago, and it is a protective and corrective way to treat the social problem of the minors. However, instead of promote their social integration, in many cases their conditions of marginalization were deteriorating. In the last years we have changed from a paternalistic vision to a model of social action. This new perspective is framed inside the Welfare State and tries to resolve the needs of children with the development of a services network: social services for primary care, social specializing services, schools of special action, special education schools,... These actions are carried out by the Administration to help to integrate the young into their social and educational reality. The legal action on the minors who have committed a criminal fact has evolved from a protective model (where the intervention was focused on the monitoring and control) to an educational model (where the therapeutic character of the interventions and the minor needs has a great importance, being less relevant the committed crime) and, finally, arriving to a responsibility model, char
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