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Violence against children and adolescent: breaking the silence

2012; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

2175-6783

Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro, Waldemar Brandão Neto, Islan Moisalye Barbosa Gomes, Roberta Biondi Nery de Freitas, Camila Lima Brady, Marta Úrsula Barbosa de Moraes,

Youth, Drugs, and Violence

This is a descriptive exploratory study of qualitative approach, which aims to identify situations of violence experienced by children and adolescents in a public school community in Santo Amaro, Recife-PE. The study involved 58 middle school children and adolescents. An interview form was assigned with speech registrations, subsidizing the construction of the fol­lowing categories: 1 – situations that children and adolescents wouldn’t like to have experienced; 2 -Children and adolescents expectations and wishes for the future. Among the situations that young people would not like to have experienced, the fol­lowing items were identified: intra-family violence; situations of exclusion; interpersonal violence and death; early sexual initiation and sexual violence. As for future expectations and wishes of children and adolescents it was shown the desire for a future with changes in their neighborhood by reducing violence. They also long for the possibility of getting training and professional performance which represent a social status disconnected to the image of marginalization which is part of the daily life of the surrounding area. Descriptors: Adolescent; Child abuse; Child abuse, sexual; Nursing.