In Ibagué the debate continues and the opinions divided regarding the shock therapy that a group of eleventh grade students received degree from a public school in the city who visited the Picaleña prison to learn about coexistence and the dynamics of a detention center.
RCN Radio consulted Cristián Camilo Daza, a psychologist with a master’s degree in Neuropsychology and Education, on this topic in order to have a look from the clinical point of view and about the eventual relevance or not of this type of exercises.
Daza explained that this type of measures are anti-pedagogical, since they do not have any type of functionality and can even generate adverse effects long term for these adolescents.
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“Doing this kind of Interventions that have this militarizing, punitive and threatening nature do not have any positive effect on life. of the human being. They generate long-term effects that are adverse or contrary to what is expected and this has been demonstrated by psychology in scientific research with statistical measurements,” explained Daza.
The psychologist argued that, currently, from this area of knowledge is committed to an approach with a high restorative and pedagogical component, but not a punitive one. In addition, it identified a flagrant victimization to which the inmates of the Picaleña prison were subjected.
“Although they are in the process of serving a sentence, unjustly or justly, which is part of the legal component, but Stigmatizing a population that is in a prison condition is not positive“added the psychologist.
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It is to be noted that This initiative was known through the social networks of the Mayor’s Office of Ibagué, as well as the mayor Johana Aranda, where the experience of adolescents with such shock therapy is evident.
As a result, comments were generated on social networks and in the public sphere. Those who are in favor of exercise considered as exemplary, while the voices against perceive that prison is not an educational space for minors.
Faced with the controversy, Mayor Aranda argued that it is a therapy of awareness and sensitization for young.
