The Importance of Welcoming and Warming up in Groups without spontaneous demand in the context of Justice.

Abstract

This article presents aspects of the experience of counselling with groups of men involved in domestic violence. It addressed part of the results obtained during four years of social therapeutic intervention within the Justice system. Emphasis is placed on the welcoming and the warming up stages of the session, in the social therapeutic counselling and in the group process. The methodology used is psychodrama and the research-through-intervention method using comprehensive analysis of the life experiences of each group and the comparative analysis between groups. Finally, we conclude that, in groups of individuals referred to us by the Justice system, particularly the ones who deal with violence against women, the welcoming and the warming up have an important function in the process of intervention promoting the protagonism of the individuals and the rescue of spontaneity and adequate responses to the situations of their own lives.