ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explain the process implemented in the Master’s degree in Models of Constructivist Social Intervention (MMI) from the Social Work Faculty (FTS) at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (UAdeC) to establish intervention models from theoretical principles and examples of some practices from social constructionism. In this sense, it is necessary to start from the questioning of social reality as an unambiguous and objective phenomenon, to give rise to the problematization of reality as the result of different social narratives that respond to the socially constructed agreements between the intersubjectivities that make up a certain group or society, and from which, the assessment criteria circumscribed to a specific historical–cultural moment are established. A social phenomenon that we are still living today and on which it is also worth reflecting in social terms is that of the COVID-19 pandemic, a situation that has brought countless social and emotional implications by sharply modifying, and in a short period of time, the social, economic, political, and emotional dynamics we were used to, and that, therefore, they also question the efficacy of traditional social interventions faced with emerging challenges because of the practices of confinement and physical distancing which in many cases result in emergent phenomena in terms of psychological health that are manifested in states of anxiety, fear, and irritability, among others. Given the need to generate social interventions that allow us to adapt more easily to emerging realities such as those we are experiencing during the pandemic is that the main characteristics of social constructionism are mentioned (especially from the contributions of Kenneth Gergen) as principles of intervention research that can then be translated into the creation of intervention models that allow giving new responses to social realities both in form and in context. Finally, the steps we have followed in the experience of the Master’s program for the creation of intervention models are presented that starting from the theoretical foundations of social constructionism, they intend to respond to emerging social phenomena, not from the perspective of the expert who diagnoses a reality, but from the dialogical interaction with those who live it and from the inclusion of these as proactive agents and in constant change, able to symbolize, and resymbolize the social and emotional situations they are going through.
