Kit de primeros auxilios psicologicos

Abstract

Health according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), is a state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of conditions or diseases; Based on this, penitentiary and prison establishments have been increasing the importance of health and mental health, carrying out strategies that seek to comply with the mental health needs of the population of persons deprived of liberty (PPL), since multiple effects are evident as a result of the prisonization and changes in the environment of each individual; at the same time that the right to health is exercised in Persons Deprived of Liberty (PPL), establishing itself mainly as an obligation, both of the entity to which they belong and of the state, since they have the duty to guarantee individual actions and collective activities that promote health, prevent mental health problems and disorders. It should be considered that in many of these penitentiary centers there are different difficulties that affect the psychological well-being of PPL, therefore problems of permanent coexistence, abuse of power, violence, consumption of psychoactive substances, stress, low emotional regulation and attempts to of suicide (Lopera & Hernandez, 2020); Under this problem is where the importance of the role of the psychologist in this context arises, the psychologist seeks to instruct the PPL in their own search for tools that allow them to improve their quality of life, while they are in prison and as the skills that are performed to achieve adequate resocialization. In relation to the problem exposed and looking at the Acacias-Meta Medium Security Prison and Penitentiary (CPMSACS), the results obtained from the diagnosis of needs in mental health are highlighted, in which difficulties were found around lack of knowledge and little relevance to the importance of physical and mental care through healthy habits, poor management of assertive communication between inmates, thus generating conflicts between them; low emotional regulation, poor management and control of stressors, suicide attempts, lack of support networks, lack of coping strategies, presence of prejudices and stigmas regarding the management of issues such as sexual orientation, gender identity and identification of people belonging to to the LGTBIQ+ community, little knowledge regarding current contraceptive methods, prevention regarding STDs and little maintenance of affective ties. Based on the diagnosis of needs and once the problems observed have been analyzed, the implementation of a psychological first aid kit is proposed, which is designed by the practitioners and will have the purpose of providing tools that allow the PPL to act and provide first attention. in a situation of psychological and/or emotional crisis, thus preventing the increase and manifestation of future problems in the mental health of PPL. The PAP Kit was born as a way to provide tools and enable autonomous and co-responsible action in the mental health of CPMSACS, by the PPL themselves, so that, first of all, this kit required training for the health monitors of each pavilion in front of the theme relates to the PAP, these subjects are characterized by having leadership qualities, assertiveness and having psychoeducational knowledge, which allow them to function in said work of using the Kit.