CVR Final Report. Annex 7. Printed Edition. Report of the Mental Health Unit

The Mental Health unit proposed a working strategy for the process that involved integrating diverse perspectives. This allowed an approach to individual and group psychological mechanisms within the context of their connection to the social and political processes that generate, sustain, or reproduce violence. In this way, we were able to highlight, on one hand, the subjective aspects and internal dynamics of individuals or groups and, on the other, the ways in which individual, family, and social dimensions interrelate. Throughout the process, we identified difficulties and resources. We located psychosocial effects in terms of the aftermath of the internal armed conflict, accounting for both the harm caused to individuals, families, groups, communities, and the country as a whole, as well as the resources deployed by affected individuals and groups to cope with the violence. From that systematization work, which draws fundamentally on the voices of those who gave testimony and on the CVR's research process, we were able to clarify some guidelines for the reparations task, which is only just beginning. In this way we responded to the initial idea of addressing the complexity of the psychosocial conflicts involved in the internal armed conflict, as well as proposing alternatives in terms of concrete proposals.