Historias de vida de adolescentes que han tenido experiencias de institucionalización y reinserción en centros de acogida en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

This research tells the stories of life of two adolescents who experienced institutionalization processes in Foster Center in the city of Guayaquil during the adolescence stage. This work is developed from the discourse of the two teenagers, rescuing in this the meaning and meaning they give to the different situations they experienced during these periods. For this work, two vertebrate theories of analysis were selected, these are Social Constructionism and the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Theory. From which you can better explain the scenarios that adolescents have lived before institutionalization, during the process and in reintegration, taking into account the role of the family, the professionals of the Foster Center, the other institutionalized adolescents, and other groups with which the adolescents relate, who happen to have a specific role throughout the process. It has worked from a qualitative research approach, contrasting the data obtained through interviews and selected theories. Obtaining among the main results the prevalence of violence and situations of sexual abuse in the cases of adolescent girls, the importance of the role of the technical team as an authority figure and its incidence in the construction of the adolescent's life plan, in addition of the sense of belonging that has developed with his family after everything he experienced in his institutionalization.