A intervenção do CREAS frente à violencia sexual contra crianças e adolescentes: em foco a realidade de São Borja

Abstract

The present work of Conclusion has the intention of discussing interfamilial sexual violence against children and adolescents and their confrontation through the Specialized Referral Center of Social Assistance (CREAS) in the municipality of São Borja. In this sense, the main objective of the study was to "analyze how the CREAS care and treatment is developed in the face of the particularities of the sexual violence of children and adolescents that affect family relationships in São Borja." Thus, the following specific objectives were built: To uncover the particularities involved in situations of interfamilial sexual violence against children and adolescents assisted by CREAS; Identify the impacts of sexual violence against children and adolescents in family relationships; To study how CREAS professional interventions have been built in view of the complexity of interfamilial sexual violence against children and adolescents. The research had a qualitative approach, using the dialectical-critical method and its categories: historicity, totality, contradiction and mediation. The process of data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews with professionals who develop their intervention practices in the care of children, adolescents and their families. To analyze the data, the technique of content analysis of Bardin (1977) was utilized. This research made it possible to understand that there is still a great need for technical improvement in the discussions on sexual violence against children and adolescents and the strategies for their care. Among the research findings, the high rate of sexual abuse against girls stands out, evidencing that gender inequality still remains a constant for the perpetuation of this expression of violence. There are several challenges faced by the CREAS team for the constitution of a protective service, in which the following are distinguished: the absence of intersectionality, the precariousness in the working conditions that entails the non-development of mediated and articulated consultations, thus precluding the integrality in the protection.