Importancia de los programas de reeducación para agresores que ejercen violencia contra las mujeres en Ecuador.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the re-education programs in Ecuador for aggressors who exercise Violence Against Women (VAW), by reflecting on the perceptions that professionals in the area have, regarding programs to prevent and reduce VAW. The methodology used combines surveys, interviews and focus groups. In the surveys and unstructured interviews, most of the professionals consulted stated that they were unaware of programs of this type. In the structured interviews and focus groups, five programs were identified in the cities of Cuenca, Riobamba and Quito, two of which are aimed at aggressors who exercise VAW, with their own unpublished protocol, and which do not welcome consultants, whose diagnosis is present. of psychopathic traits, or alcohol and drug dependence. In Cuenca we located ADN ANANDA Corporación Terapéutica, a private Foundation, which since 2013 has been executing the psychoeducational program called Intervention with Men Who Exercise Violence (HEV). In Riobamba, the Nosotras con Equidad Foundation has the Renacer 2018 Program, private psychosocial treatment. In Ecuador, violence against women evidences the increase in the statistics of the INEC, the Prosecutor's Office, the Judicial Council, ECU 911 and the ALDEA Foundation, making visible both the structures based on dominant masculinity, and the consequences of gender violence, therefore that when verifying in this study the presence of only two programs oriented to the reeducation of aggressors, it is a very reduced offer in the face of an urgent demand; undoubtedly a pending debt in the goal of reducing and eradicating VAW.