Proyecto PsicoApp

El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo crear una aplicación móvil para personas que necesitan el servicio de psicología debido a la coyuntura actual del covid-19 y brindarle la ayuda necesaria a través de consultas virtuales con profesionales especializados en problemas psicológicos, ya que la pandemia afectó a gran parte de la población mundial, en base a la investigación que se realizó en el Perú se ha incrementado los problemas en salud mental como: estrés, ansiedad, entre otros. Asimismo, las personas que durante el aislamiento social obligatorio perdieron familiares originaron problemas traumáticos que afecta su rendimiento laboral o académico, puesto que sus emociones se veían afectadas de una manera agresiva al dejar de realizar actividades cotidianas que solían efectuar a diario. Cabe resaltar que durante este proceso hemos realizado una profunda investigación, basándonos en fuentes reales, con el fin de recolectar información importante que nos será de ayuda para el desarrollo del presente proyecto. Nuestro aplicativo tiene como objetivo conectar a nuestros usuarios con especialistas en psicología altamente capacitados de manera que se les brinde ayuda en cuanto a los diversos problemas de salud mental que puedan tener. Por lo que, en el proceso de investigación, se han desarrollado diversos experimentos para obtener una retroalimentación acertada de nuestro proyecto.This project aims to create a mobile application for people who need the psychology service due to the current situation of covid-19 and provide the necessary help through virtual consultations with professionals specialized in psychological problems, since the pandemic affected a large part of the world population, based on the research that was carried out in Peru, mental health problems have increased such as: stress, anxiety, among others. People who lost family members during mandatory social isolation caused traumatic problems that affected their work or academic performance, since their emotions were affected in an aggressive way by stopping performing daily activities that they used to do daily. It should be noted that during this process we have carried out a deep investigation, based on real sources, in order to collect important information that will help us for the development of this project. Our application aims to connect our users with highly trained psychology specialists so that they are provided with help regarding the various mental health problems they may have. So, in the research process, various experiments have been developed to obtain accurate feedback from our project.Trabajo de investigació

“A Massive Long Way”: Interconnecting Histories, a “Special Child,” ADHD, and Everyday Family Life

Focusing on one family from a study of dual-earner middle-class families carried out in Los Angeles, California, this article draws on interview and video-recorded data of everyday interactions to explore illness and healing as embedded in the microcultural context of the Morris family. For this family, an important aspect of what is at stake for them in their daily lives is best understood by focusing on 9-year-old Mark, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this article, we grapple with the complexity of conveying some sense of how Mark’s condition is experienced and relationally enacted in everyday contexts. Through illuminating connections between lives as lived and lives as told, we explore the narrative structuring of healing in relation to Mark’s local moral world with the family at its center. We examine how his parents understand the moral consequences of the child’s past for his present and future, and work to encourage others to give due weight to his troubled beginnings before this child joined the Morris family. At the same time, we see how the Morris parents act to structure Mark’s moral experience and orient to a desired future in which Mark’s “success” includes an appreciation of how he is accountable to others for his actions. Through our analyses, we also seek to contribute to discussions on what is at stake in everyday life contexts for children with ADHD and their families, through illuminating aspects of the cultural, moral and relational terrain that U.S. families navigate in contending with a child’s diagnosis of ADHD. Further, given that ADHD is often construed as a “disorder of volition,” we seek to advance anthropological theorizing about the will in situations where volitional control over behavior is seen to be disordered

Giving an Account of One’s Pain in the Anthropological Interview

In this paper, I analyze the illness stories narrated by a mother and her 13-year-old son as part of an ethnographic study of child chronic pain sufferers and their families. In examining some of the moral, relational and communicative challenges of giving an account of one’s pain, I focus on what is left out of some accounts of illness and suffering and explore some possible reasons for these elisions. Drawing on recent work by Judith Butler (Giving an Account of Oneself, 2005), I investigate how the pragmatic context of interviews can introduce a form of symbolic violence to narrative accounts. Specifically, I use the term “genre of complaint” to highlight how anthropological research interviews in biomedical settings invoke certain typified forms of suffering that call for the rectification of perceived injustices. Interview narratives articulated in the genre of complaint privilege specific types of pain and suffering and cast others into the background. Giving an account of one’s pain is thus a strategic and selective process, creating interruptions and silences as much as moments of clarity. Therefore, I argue that medical anthropologists ought to attend more closely to the institutional structures and relations that shape the production of illness narratives in interview encounters