PERCEPÇÃO DE VIOLÊNCIA E ENFRETAMENTO DE ADOLESCENTES VITIMIZADOS

Abstract

Issues related to violence have drawn attention and become the object of study of different areas of knowledge. Note, increasingly, that violence against adolescents has increased not only in Brazil but worldwide. However, despite the impact of such violence be multiple, there are individual variations. Knowing how the teenager faces the consequences of exposure to violence is of utmost importance not only to broaden the understanding of this phase of development, but also to bring important information to prepare care programs, prevention and treatment for adolescents. This study is the result and conclusion of the Master in Psychology, held at the Graduate program stricto sensu of the Catholic University of Goiás, in the search line Psychopathology Clinical and Health. This study aims to survey in literature of the last ten years than has been produced on adolescents exposed to violent livings and their coping strategies, and bring to understand how teens goianos have noticed these livings that are exposed and their coping strategies in response to these events. This research originated from the need for material on the subject and also the necessity of deepening of issues related to violent livings and adolescents, such as coping forms the adolescents goianos before exposure to violent events, as well as their perceptions respect of such acts, if culture influences these experiences and ways of coping, whether gender affects the way teenagers behave before them and the consequences of exposure of adolescents. To meet the goal, the dissertation was organized into two chapters, the first entitled "Systematic review of the production of articles on violence, adolescence and coping", which aims to raise in the literature of the past ten years, related articles with adolescence, violence and coping with the intention to find out what is being produced on the subject. In the second chapter, "An empirical study on how teenagers goianos face episodes of violence suffered," seeks to categorize the problems described by goianos adolescents and to verify the correlation between violent livings, their types and nature and strategies coping goianos adolescents. Through these results, we can foster discussion on the topic, as well as contribute to the create programs and actions for the promotion, prevention and treatment of these adolescents, considering the particularities and complexities involving this period human development.