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 extension

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 mayor’s 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 adolescent’s 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.