Music therapy. A strategy committed to youth self-esteem

Abstract

The contributions of this article reflect the experience of a brief process of participatory action research with an important component of sociocultural animation in the framework of university social extensión work. Rescue the logic of the diagnostic, planning and execution stages of an experience carried out with young people from the Municipal House of the Adolescent of the city of Juigalpa in Chontales, a program of the historical and socio-cultural heritage of the mayors office of citizen power that depends directly on the area of planning since 1998. Currently has a total of 25 active adolescents in the program, from families with socio-family difficulties. From a diagnostic insertion the need arises for an action plan to strengthen the self-esteem of young people trying to involve their parents, guardians and promoters of the program. We call this idea a socio-educational intervention project: Strengthening of self-esteem in young people of the adolescents municipal house, Juigalpa-Chontales, through music therapy. The experience concludes that through the proposal of sociocultural animation developed, both young people and promoters, fathers and mothers rescue the importance of working on self-esteem and empower themselves with techniques of music therapy for the management and improvement of it in their personal lives In addition, to recognize the need to continue university-society ties.