Os psicólogos e a assistência a mulheres em situação de violência / Psychological assistance and violence against women.

AUTOR(ES)

Heloisa Hanada

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The aim of the present investigation was to identify and analyse the insertion of psychologists working in the network of services for assisting women experiencing violence in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. The organization of psychological assistance in diverse assistance vocations and the integration of psychologists in work teams and in other services were studied from the perspective of womens needs, and multi-professional and intersectoral actions in facing the situations and providing care for gender-based violence. For that, normative documents on violence care were researched (Ministry of Health and Department of Special Policy for Women) and data from interviews with professionals working in 109 services with diverse assistance vocations in Sao Paulo (police, justice, health, psychosocial assistance, shelters, basic assistance) were analysed. Psychologists are present and their work is requested in all types of services, but with less participation in police and justice facilities. They work in the training and supervision of other professionals, as well as directly assisting the public. A great diversity of practices was observed in the assistance - clinical, educational, orientation and judicial mediation activities - with frequent adjustment of these interventions to the objectives and hierarchical culture within each category of service. In general, psychologists are called to work in the strengthening of self-esteem, the resuming of sexual life, restructuring life itself, understanding of the situation of violence, working-out of and escape from the victim condition, promotion of autonomy and search for transformation in family/ intimate relationships or gender patterns. These objectives are put to the general teams working in the services, especially the first one. The influence of conceptions and proposals from the womens movement is perceived in the formulation of the servicesobjectives and in the way the activities are developed. The distinction between the psychologistswork and the work of other professionals is not always clear, especially regarding social work. This results in imprecise functions and actions, which may represent difficulties in the dialogue between professionals and services, and in the integration of multi-professional actions, potentially compromising integral care to women experiencing violence. On the other hand, this impreciseness opens up space for innovations in assistance practices. Multi-professional integration is, in general, also sought within work teams of each service, but in some of them the professionals search for complementarity in their actions and integration with services with different assistance vocations. There is a need for better definitions on the specific role of psychologists in the assistance of women experiencing violence, considering the specific network and the broader assistance network in Sao Paulo.

ASSUNTO(S)

psicólogos interprofessional relations violência contra a mulher relações interprofissionais psychologists community network redes comunitárias violence against women

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