Reflective ethnography and art therapy, methodology for intervention with girls and boys in vulnerable spaces

Abstract

This document presents the work carried out with girls and boys in vulnerable spaces. Social work students have been part of the accompaniment care process with various techniques: drawings, sculpture, narrative, theater, to, in the face of sexual violence, offer body care information from Comprehensive Sexual Education. The social intervention is carried out from a reflective ethnographic approach that calls for multiple possibilities of support for the prevention of violence against children. In caring work with girls, in the face of possible trauma, a condition for not victimizing infants is working with silence as an ally. We turn to Marcus Banks (2010) who proposes in field work to add to verbal and observation data, visual data that offer practical and ethical opportunities to promote the meaning of social action committed to social actors, participants in the transformations of its reality.