Psychological aspects of children and adolescents victims of sexual violence: an analysis of strategies in the brazilian health system

Abstract

Violence is something that is unfortunately culturally embodied in global society. Among the existing forms of violence, sexual violence is one of the biggest indicators in recent years in the world and in Brazil. The people most vulnerable to this violence are children and adolescents, who end up suffering various physical and psychological problems. In Brazil, there are various public bodies to deal with this type of violence, and care networks to help victims recover. To highlight the psychological aspects of children and adolescents who have been victims of sexual violence and the strategies of the care network for children and adolescents in Brazil. This study is an integrative literature search, with data collected from SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and BVS (Virtual Health Library). The data survey and the focus of this research yielded a total of 15 articles that correspond carefully to the axes established in this work, which are: axis 1: impacts of sexual violence on the mental health of individuals, axis 2: characterization of psychological suffering in children and adolescents victims of sexual violence and axis 3: psychosocial care network as a care tool for children and adolescents victims of sexual violence. Children and adolescents who are victims of sexual violence suffer from a number of extremely serious psychological and social problems. The process of maturing is totally shaken by the psychological games and psychological torture suffered during sexual violence, which has a major impact on the victim's life, making the care networks and laws to support this group work increasingly hard to track down this type of violence, so that the rates of child and adolescent sexual abuse decrease more and more. The risks that the child and adolescent population face as a result of having experienced episodes of sexual violence are obvious. This is a group that deserves a great deal of attention in their social environment in order to trace any means of violation. The networks that care for these victims of sexual abuse play a fundamental role in finding, recovering and promoting cases of sexual violence.