Ações preventivas e protetivas do abuso sexual contra crianças e adolescentes: revisão de literatura

Abstract

This paper aims to identify and analyze national academic productions from 2015 to 2020 on preventive and protective actions for intrafamilial sexual abuse against children and adolescents. This is a systematic review of the metasynthesis literature, which used the databases of the CAPES and VHL-Psi, with the following descriptors: "Preven* and Child Sexual Abuse""Prot* and Child Sexual Abuse" and "Sexual violence and Child". The inclusion criteria used: articles produced in the last ten years (2010 to 2020); national articles available in Portuguese; address the issue of sexual abuse against children and adolescents/intra-family and containing in its title at least one of the descriptors. A 106 articles were obtained after the exclusion of the repeated ones. For the analysis phase, we opted for a second cut-out: articles from the psychology area of the last five years, composing the final sample of 18 articles. From the in-depth reading of this sample, two thematic categories were identified: Preventive measures for intrafamilial sexual abuse against children and adolescents and Protective measures for intrafamilial sexual abuse against children and adolescents. A lack of productions has been identified that point to the school as an ally and a space for preventing abuse through sex education in a comprehensive way. It is concluded that the implementation and permanence of Public Policies is the most indicated measure in the literature for prevention and combating sexual abuse against children and adolescents.