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Submitted September 23, 2025
Published 2025-10-28

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Mental health and life skills in young displaced students in the department of Córdoba, Colombia


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Published: 2025-10-28

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Meléndez Gómez, M. M. (2025). Mental health and life skills in young displaced students in the department of Córdoba, Colombia. Punto Educativo, 1364–1378. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/punto_educativo/article/view/8241

Abstract

This article carries out an analysis and documentary review on mental health, emotional and psychological challenges faced by young people who have suffered forced displacement, a phenomenon present in the department of Córdoba. In the same way, it is analyzed how violence and its consequences have impacted mental health, showing an increase in different problems, evident in mental disorders such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. There is concern about the increase in suicide attempts and completed suicides in this population group. Proposing the importance of developing strategies that aim to work on the different life skills proposed by the WHO in young people, with the purpose of improving emotional and social well-being, taking into account that they must be internalized and put into practice to respond to the different problems that you face in your daily life. Different skills such as resilience, effective communication, problem solving and emotion management are presented as essential tools to face adversity and rebuild their life projects. These not only promote better adaptation to the new school environment, but also They strengthen your ability to build healthy relationships and make decisions that define your life project. Therefore, psychoeducational interventions are needed with the adolescent population, executing programs that integrate the development of life skills as a transversal strategy that aims to prevent different mental health problems.

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