Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In 2007 Chile implemented its Law on Adolescent Criminal Liability, bringing to fruition a number of programs centering on social control, which have historically been undertaken by social workers. This has led to a rethinking of professional actions, showing a range of different tensions: firstly, a system focused on ensuring that adolescent offenders complete the measures and sanctions imposed for the crimes they have committed, and that they then achieve reinsertion into society, contrasted with a tendency to conceal a severely unequal and violent neoliberal system that attributes all responsibility to young people and their families. Thus, a system that breaches and overlooks all types of rights, that adopts public policies for reinsertion into society in a bid to claim that a solution has been found for the same problems that it has itself created through the formation of the social issue.

The following article analyzes the territorial context of impoverished youth between 12 and 18 years of age in terms of the public services programs currently offered to address both legal and illegal substance abuse. From there, the individual, family and social composition of this reality is investigated in order to identify the factors that impact and provoke abusive practices at an early age. Finally, the article offers a critical look at how the intervention networks operate and, based on this, proposes the need from a more specialized offer to protect the comprehensive biological and psychosocial development of youth, as stipulated in the Convention of the Rights of the Child and ratified by Chile.

Current research on phenomena associated with social exclusion, such as migration, are related to the visibility of precarious settlements as an essential part of Chile's territorial inequality and social segregation. However, important challenges still remain for its adequate qualitative characterization and to understand how the different social exclusion phenomena detected in precarious settlements in Chile challenge public policy and civil society organizations, as well as the social intervention that seeks to overcome them. This article looks to contribute to this discussion and highlight the consequences and analysis of these social sub-exclusions in precarious settlements, based on a literature review, secondary data analysis and case study.

The purpose of this article is to outline the sociohistorical arguments that justify the presence of Clinical Social Work in Chile. The need to clarify this specialization arises within the context of the current transformations experienced by our professional identity in intervention scenarios. In this sense, the possibility of reflecting critically on the situation at hand leads us to reposition our history which, given the new contemporary challenges, needs to be resignified. Therefore, this document performs an archaeological and genealogical documentary analysis of the clinical practice of Social Work in our country, visualizing the historical vestiges of Clinical Social Work in certain contexts. Finally, professional commentary is made regarding the current situation of the social work profession and the need to transform our identity as social workers before a society of psychiatrization, which challenges us and invites us to develop a qualified practice

The present article focuses on a central element of the therapeutic work with adolescents that have survived child sexual abuse (CSA) and who are coping with traumatic flashbacks. The study implements a narrative review of the main theories concerning the phenomenon of rumination and its tremendous effect on the experience of pain associated with CSA. It discusses the role of rumination on the onset and maintenance of symptomatology associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and outlines the primary effects of rumination and the relationship between rumination and CSA. Finally, the principal inputs of narrative practices in the work on rumination are reviewed based on a case study of work done with an adolescent. Different conversational methodologies are applied to help the adolescent break the cycle of pain associated with the process of post-CSA rumination.

This article addresses the importance of considering the intersections of gender identity, transgender people, migration, sex work and their connection to sex trafficking, through the fieldwork experience performed between 2015 and 2018 with the Chilean Transgender Sex Workers Union "Amanda Jofré Cerda." The article looks to raise awareness of this little-known phenomenon, based on the findings generated in the fieldwork. Its theoretical development reveals the dichotomies of the Chilean regulatory framework, the absence of human rights approach, criticism of the Constitution which does not protect these rights, and transgender people's need to come together in common spaces from the perspective of associativity, tied to the phenomenon of sex trafficking. The article also examines the invisibilization of transsexual victims, highlighting intersectionality as an approach that can be applied to address social issues related to human rights and to draw attention to the transsexual victims of sex trafficking, often forgotten because they have historically not been recognized as a gender within the patriarchal cultures and countries of South America. The paper ends with a series of contemporary conclusions that highlight the needs of transgender sex trafficking victims, which are closely related to intersectionality, power relations and the violation of their rights