Estrategias de afrontamiento del estrés en el desarrollo infantil frente al aislamiento social: Un beneficio para la salud mental.

Abstract

Coping strategies represent the cognitive and emotional resources that a person has to face stressful or unbalancing situations. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the population in social and emotional aspects, and one of the main populations most affected are infants; For this reason, the present program design aimed to design an intervention program in stress coping strategies in the face of social isolation in infants between 6 and 7 years old. It was followed by a mixed approach and involved a documentary compilation and analysis to culminate in the design of an intervention program aimed at strengthening coping strategies. Among the main results, it was found that in Colombia the emotional and psychological affectation in the child population due to the Covid-19 pandemic is not being taken into account, on the other hand, it was possible to establish that the coping strategies that can be developed in children, taking into account the characteristics of childhood are: Problem solving, Social support, Professional support, Positive reevaluation, Expression of the coping difficulty and Autonomy taken from the theory of Lazarus and Folkman (986, cited in Ramírez, Juárez, Parada, Guerrero, Romero, Salgado & Vargas Amaya, 2016) and finally a primer was designed As a recommendation that seeks to strengthen the strategies described above and the characteristics of the childhood stage such as logical thinking, creativity, the development of self-esteem and self-concept as elements that favor the healthy construction of coping strategies in children.