Repositorio Institucional Universidad Católica de Colombia - RIUCaC

Resumen en español

It begins describing the social - demographic context which is developed education and mental health actions in the country. It is emphasized in the problems of the national education, describing how in its relation there have emerged a series of problems of psychosocial order that affect mental health of the population: the greater use and abuse of drugs, the development of all type of violence especially in higth school and in the streets, such as the emergence of gangs, or the critical problems derived from the lack of information and appropiate sexual education: each of them is being analyzed in their epidemiological aspects, in its conception and in their pre­vention strategies that facilitate the development of mental or psychological health in people.