Daño psicológico: vivencias de víctimas del conflicto armado pertenecientes al municipio de Cucutilla (Norte de Santander).

Abstract

One of the main problems that have occurred throughout history in our country is the armed conflict and its negative consequences that undoubtedly interfere in different areas of the lives of victims, for this reason the objective of this research was to define the psychological damage in the victims of the armed conflict belonging to the municipality of Cucutilla, Norte de Santanderall this through a structured interview that allowed us to investigate more deeply in the personal, family and social areas in order to design a book of strategies for coping. The methodological framework includes a qualitative study with a phenomenological design with a population of six participants registered in the Single Registry of Victims (RUV) selected for convenience or non-probabilistic volunteering and the instrument used was a structured interview of 44 items with the categories of psychological damage in armed conflict and contexts (personal, family and social). The results obtained showed that the armed conflict causes psychological harm to the victims, regardless of the victimizing event, and directly affects their personal, family and socialspheres, altering their emotional stability and their ability to achieve established goals and objectives. Therefore, it can be concluded that the general objective of defining psychological damage and its alterations in the different personal, family andsocial areas is fulfilled, as well as the specific objectives of this investigation that allowed the realization of the booklet "Strategies for coping".