Retos y Posibilidades frente a la Evaluación del Daño Psíquico en Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia de Pareja en el Consultorio Psicoforense de la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

Violence against women is a problem with a high prevalence rate both nationally and internationally; and despite the joint efforts of the countries to generate public policies to mitigate this reality, the numbers are increasing because they occur in different contexts and with actors such as the partner, ex-partner, a family member, an acquaintance, etc. For its part, the work carried out by Forensic Psychology in Colombia for the exploration of psychological damage in women victims of violence by a partner or ex-partner has had great relevance in the development of the processes of investigation, prosecution and for the incident of comprehensive reparation, however, there is no clear evidence of Colombian protocols or guiding criteria for the approach to these cases. Through this qualitative research and the use of tools such as focus groups and surveys to other forensic psychologists who are part of the Consultorio Psicoforense of the Universidad Santo Tomás, it was evidenced which are those weaknesses, opportunities, strengths and threats in which this exercise of the forensic psychologist is found and for the qualitative analysis of the information obtained, a specialized software called ATLAS.ti was used by which the four categories SWOT and some emerging subcategories were codified, obtaining a semantic network for each case. It should be noted that, from the professional practice of the author in the Consultorio Psicoforense of the Universidad Santo Tomás, psychological evaluations were conducted on this problem, to generate a proposal for a forensic approach to psychological damage in violence against women by their partner or ex-partner, and thus, a document was designed containing guiding criteria for the work.