Modelo ECO2: redes sociales, complejidad y sufrimiento social.

A well-documented result of many diverse researches is that social networks play a key role in health / wellness or illness / malaise state of people. In this framework, we present a model, called ECO2 (developed by civil society organizations in Mexico and experienced in different countries, mainly Latin Americans), for intervention on a wide range of hypercomplex phenomena called “social suffering” that uses social networks as a useful and powerful theory and method for both diagnosis (of individuals and local communities), design and development of intervention strategies in a variety of social contexts (including those considered severe social exclusion) with objectives of prevention, harm reduction and associated risks, as well as for community-based treatment of different situations of social distress (i.e. problematic use of psychoactive substances, legal and / or illegal status, homelessness, juvenile offenders, gender violence, exploitation commercial sexual, et cetera). Within a local community, ECO2 model-based intervention seeks the articulation of a resources network, create an operational network (communitarian subjective social networks of the operators that intervene) and increase the effective complexity of people’s social networks, especially those in situations of severe social exclusion.