Psychosocial holistic perspective

Abstract

This research is a documentary revision on the psychosocial concept, it is a part of the Project: “Latin American Observatory on the psychosocial on situations of Trauma and psychosocial Incapacity” supported by national direction of Investigation of the Universidad Antonio Nariño, Faculty of Psychosocial Therapies. Tepsiso, an investigation group registered in COLCIENCIAS. The aim of this work is the review of the literature of the concept psychosocial documentary, taking into consideration information produced by national and international organizations like UNICEF, OMS, OPS, MINPROTECCIÓN, ICBF and universities like Nacional, Antonio Nariño, Andes, Luís Amigó and Sabana. The information has been classified according to aspects such as human capital, stress, disarter, trauma, psychosocial incapacity, rehabilitation, network of support and observatory. The 211 Analytical Summaries of Investigation (RAIs) obtained after the documentary review they have allowed to conclude that the psychosocial concept requires precision, and its understanding is based on the Human Rights and the International Humanitarian Right. This concept is developed from three models of attention: sanitary or medical, communitarian collaborations, and third associated to catastrophes and prevention. A paradigm exists, that interdependently ties the psychological and the social in stress situations, disaster and psychosocial trauma because in this type of situation, it is affected the individual and the collectivity in different levels; the psychosocial participation intent the transformation by means of actions of self/management in community where the respect of the fundamental rights and practices it of Human rights DH are part of the model of psychosocial attention.