Marisol Moreno Angarita

Educación superior y discapacidad: análisis desde la experiencia de algunas universidades colombianas

El objetivo del presente estudio fue conocer como se estan llevando a cabo los procesos de educacion superior inclusiva, mediante un analisis descriptivo cualitativo de las medidas inclusivas que se llevan a cabo en universidades de Bogota-Colombia. La investigacion se desarrollo en tres fases: primero se hizo una revision bibliografica internacional; despues se realizo una aproximacion cualitativa a los procesos reportados por cuatro universidades de Bogota, y posteriormente se elaboraron algunos aportes para el fortalecimiento de la educacion superior inclusiva, basados en los resultados obtenidos. Se encontro que la educacion superior inclusiva es una vision educativa que ha ganado cada vez mayor fuerza en el mundo y en Colombia, pero que demanda todavia esfuerzos para su realizacion plena, particularmente en los aspectos de accesibilidad, practicas pedagogicas incluyentes y ajustes razonables. Finalmente, se exponen recomendaciones para favorecer el proceso de educacion inclusiva en las universidades Colombianas.

Modelo de Comunicación desde una Perspectiva Social, orientado a la Actividad Física

Objective A communication model was designed and put into practice, in the form of a Network throughout three regions in Colombia; Bogota, Antioquia and Qu...

Rehabilitation Services in Colombia

The country of Colombia, South America, has an official incidence of disability rate of 6.3% or 2,624,898 individuals (Ministerio de Salud y Proteccion Social [MINSALUD], 2014a). Colombia has undertaken a substantial effort to implement the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) matrix from the World Health Organization (WHO) originally formulated in the Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978 (WHO 1978, September). This chapter explains the Colombian’s government efforts to implement the CBR matrix, its principles and basic premises. We also address the process that has been undertaken to provide reparation and rehabilitation services to individuals affected by the armed conflict in Colombia and offer recommendations for service delivery improvements.

Resilience and disability: Life oral history in ecological perspective

S Center Rounds® are multidisciplinary meetings where caregivers reflect on important psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and their caregivers, and gain insight and support from fellow staff members, with the goal of advancing compassionate health care, supporting caregivers, and fostering the connection between clinician and patient. Rounds were initiated at the MGH Cancer Center in 1997 and have since grown to include in more than 320 healthcare facilities in 39 states, and most cancer centers nationwide. In a formal evaluation of the impact of rounds participants reported increased insight into psychosocial aspects of care; enhanced compassion; increased ability to respond to patients’ social and emotional issues; enhanced communication amongst caregivers; greater appreciation of colleagues’ roles and contributions. Attendees reported decreased feelings of stress and isolation and a greater sense of teamwork. Participants reported that Rounds discussions led to changes in institutional practices or policies. Patient centered care requires that we balance modern medicine with humanism, through the different phases of patients’ experience of life threatening illness. Schwartz Center Rounds provide a forum for discussion of challenging psychosocial, spiritual and emotional issues and promotes resilience.F five large scale studies among children, adolescents and mothers to young children on the consequences of exposure to political violence, we can begin asking questions about resilience: who does not develop PTSD or substance use despite mass exposure to political violence; what are external resources that promote resilience; what are the implications for measurement scales? Schiff ’s presentation will begin answering these and other questions based on her research studies. Methods: Results from five large-scale studies at different times will be presented. During the acts of political violenceA representative sample of 997 (10 and 11 graders) from all Jewish schools in Haifa; 600 students from six Jewish high schools. A year after the second Lebanon warA representative sample of 4733 students from Israeli Arab and Jewish high schools; 6700 elementary, junior high and high school Israeli Arab and Jewish students residing in north Israel; a representative sample of 904 Israeli Arab and Jewish mothers to young children. Results will point to the high exposure to political violence (self-report). Israeli Arab children, adolescents, and mothers report higher levels of exposure and greater negative consequences (PTSD, violence and substance use) than their Jewish counterparts. Thus, ethnicity, age, gender, social support, protective measures during war, acknowledging need for help, religiosity, traumatic events in childhood, and life satisfaction all play important roles in the individual’s level of resilience. Implications for the need for better conceptual framework and further research at the local and international level will be explored.Background: Each year world-wide, more than 14 million people receive a diagnosis of cancer. More than 32 million people have received a cancer diagnosis during the last five years, and this number will exponentially increase in the coming decade thanks to improved medical technologies. For an individual, a diagnosis of cancer includes many practical, physical, psychological and existential challenges. It seems understandable that approximately 12% of all cancer patients experience clinical levels of depression, and up to 70% report distress related to existential challenges, such as having to find new priorities and meaning in life, and being confronted with life’s hardships. More and more psychological studies show that these existential factors are at the heart of the cancer patients’ experience of stress. That is, difficulties in coping with cancer cannot only be attributed to having ‘unhelpful cognitions’ or ‘inadequate problem-solving skills’, but also to the inherent existential meaning of having cancer. For that reason, also more and more psychotherapeutic interventions are being developed to help cancer patients to cope with these existential topics. A systematic literature review will discuss the therapeutic techniques and effectiveness of these existential therapies.T presentation demonstrates visual art therapy as a unique integrative approach to the multidimensional treatment of PTSD. This model offers unique contribution in three major areas: 1. working on traumatic memories; 2. the process of symbolization and integration; 3. providing unique qualities for containment, transference and counter transference. The artistic medium encourages the pictorial expression of the client’s inner experience enabling communication with the traumatic memory in its own language – shape, color and sensations. The medium allows dissociated, repressed materials stored in memory as visual images to reach consciousness, to be expressed and encountered. The symbolic image spontaneously emerging in the client’s work is the core of the healing process and has the ability to contain and bear the dissociative character of the trauma. Thus symbols evoked in the artistic products of victims help recode the traumatic event and turn a dissociated and isolated instance into an integrated part of the individual’s personality, connected associatively to other thoughts, feelings and times. In this way, a coherent biographical continuum is formed and the healing process can occur.