The meaning of empowerment in community integrative therapy in the life of therapists community

Abstract

With this study we intend to understand the significance of empowerment in Integrative Community Therapy (TCI) for Community therapists and how this meaning was built. For this we conducted a qualitative study building a research context prioritizing the listening community therapists about their enabling process in TCI. Seven Community therapists participated in this research. Given the nature of this research focused on the significance of the field, we conducted interviews organized as dialogical conversations around some topics of interest according to the objectives stated above. The information obtained was analyzed according to the social poetry that invites the researcher to highlight important aspects in his conversation with the participants. Understand the meaning of training in ICT to the lives of community therapists and aspects involved in these results may help to understand the impact of the enabling process for those involved, contributing to the network of trainers poles in TCI credited by ABRATECOM, Latin America and Europe.