"A compreensão de família sob a ótica de pais e filhos envolvidos na violência doméstica contra crianças e adolescentes" / Understanding the family from the perspective of parents and children involved in domestic violence against children and adolescents.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Nowadays, there is an urgent need for a broad social mobilization process against family violence. The health service is a privileged space to act in the field of domestic violence. Health professionals face countless difficulties to deal with this phenomenon. In this sense, we believe that one of these difficulties refers to the lack of a fuller understanding about the family approach, which is related to a lack of knowledge about the subject. This research aimed to get to know and analyze how parents and children involved in episodes of domestic violence against children and adolescents, institutionalized at the Care Center for Child and Adolescent Victims (CACAV). A qualitative methodology was adopted and data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews with parents and child victims, totaling 6 families. Content analysis was chosen to analyze these data, using the thematic mode proposed by Bardin (1979). The theoretical reference framework that guided our data analysis was the model centered on Urie Bronfenbrenner’s view of the ecological context of human development. Based on the interviewees’ discourse, we identified two themes: “family context” and “violence”. With respect to the first theme, we observed that the parents’ view on family differs from that of the child and adolescent victims, since the parents’ point of view favors an understanding of family as the core, within a perspective that is still culturally and socially established by society. Children, on the other hand, indicate that bonds of love and affection are more important than blood relations. This fact may be related to victimization, since domestic violence contributes to the weakening of family feelings. What the second theme is concerned, we demonstrate that, due to the fact that children and adolescents witness or experience domestic violence, they will tend to reproduce violent relations, thus perpetuating the transmission chain of this kind of violence. We believe that, within a context of meanings, the perspectives presented in this study reflect the reality the family goes through, thus making it easier to prevent these events. Hence, it should be taken into account that it is on the basis of knowledge about the family dynamics and how violence is experienced by its victims and aggressors that we can think of an intervention strategy that is capable of breaking the perverse cycle of violent family relations.

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adolescente violência doméstica criança family família child and adolescent domestic violence

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