A VIOLÊNCIA CONTRA CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES NAS DISSERTAÇÕES E TESES BRASILEIRAS EM PSICOLOGIA (DE 2010 A 2015)

Abstract

This dissertation is inserted in the Stricto Sensu Post-Graduation Program in Psychology, with emphasis in Social Psychology of Work and Organizations, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC Goiás). It was sought to apprehend violence against children and adolescents in Brazilian dissertations and theses in Psychology from 2010 to 2015. The method of this research is anchored in historical and dialectical materialism, in the assumptions of Socio- Historical Psychology of Vygotsky. It presented, as general objective, to analyze the production of the dissertations and theses of the Graduate Programs in Psychology in Brazil that contemplate the aforementioned period. As specific objectives, we sought to analyze the contributions of dissertations and theses to the epistemological-scientific field and also to the socio-historical context; to apprehend the researched objects of violence and, especially, violence against children and adolescents; to describe the data presented in the surveys and to identify the theoretical and methodological aspects that guided these productions. For that, we chose the methodology of Qualitative Metassynthesis that allows a socio-historical analysis of the object of study investigated. Metassynthesis consists of five phases: exploration, crossing, refinement, description and interpretation. The research identified the Universities and Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Programs in Psychology in Brazil through the Sucupira Platform, located at CAPES, and dissertations and theses linked to the Programs in the period from 2010 to 2015 through the Catalog of Thesis and Dissertations of CAPES and / or the Brazilian Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) of the Institutions. We found: 7,269 dissertations (100%) and 2,324 theses (100%). Of this amount, 908 dissertations (12.5%) and 259 theses (11.1%) related to violence were identified through the reading of the titles, and, regarding violence against children and adolescents, 432 dissertations were found ( 5.9%) and 159 theses (6.8%). However, they did not specifically analyze children and adolescents. After the exclusions in light of the established criteria, we reached 10 dissertations (0.1%) and 02 theses (0.1%) that directly heard children and adolescents victims of violence. The results express the invisibility of violence against children and adolescents in psychology research in the period investigated. The three theoretical matrices present in these studies were: psychoanalysis, socio-historical psychology and cognitivism. Most of the researches (10) used the qualitative methodology with varied methodological procedures. The situations of violence investigated were: sexual (7); psychological (2) negligence (1); physical (1) and all forms of violence (1). It was also found that the meanings attributed to violence and violence against children are crossed by the epistemological perspective adopted by the research.