Abstract
We present here a theoretical model for the construction of community responses to comprehensive adolescent health problems. It summarizes the work done by our team over the last 15 years, both in the field of research and in technical assistance to intervention programs in Argentina. The model is organized into 3 conceptual axes from which 10 principles and 6 steps emerge; it retrieves the debates of health promotion, collective health and critical pedagogy. Although it can be used to work on different problems of adolescent health, in this article it is applied to a specific topic of international relevance: sexual abuse against children and adolescents. This modeling implies a dialectic that, on the one hand, gives place so that the singular and contingent of each experience can appear. However, it recognizes that many problems are repeated in different communities, either close or geographically distant, and that the experience in dealing with them can contribute to build new action informed in practice. We propose here a work based on the inclusion of differences, where the myths, beliefs, prejudices and stereotypes that support the multiple discriminations that people can suffer are questioned.
Keywords:
model; health promotion; child sexual abuse; adolescents; community
