Choque cultural, percepciones de una cooperante en situaciones críticas

Résumé

There are millions of people cooperating internationally in areas with critical situations. There is the possibility of a cultural shock in these people who cooperate, which can modify their professional abilities and cause them a strong emotional impact. "That was an impression that will last me a lifetime" "That there is no way to assimilate it" are some of the expressions that we find in Quetzal’ speech, a doctor who cooperates about 10 years in different territories of the world, and show us how cultural shock occurs and how she tries to manage it. We have made a qualitative study through one of the biographical methods such as the biographical story. The data have been collected in the semi-structured Quetzal’s interview that will be classified around the cultural shock, the critical situations produced, the previous information and the coping of the shock. The results are classified around the experiences that occur in the cooperation of the informant, their psychological adaptation in the moment and the way of assimilating it over the time. The possibility of advanced emotional training to turn culture shock into a positive process for people who cooperate.