Abstract

GONCALVES, Maria José. Aumentar a resiliência das crianças vítimas de violência. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2003, vol.21, n.1, pp.23-30. ISSN 0870-8231.

Violence is spread all over the world and the number of children, which are victims increase every day. The direct impact of the trauma, its influence on development and the coping mechanisms are different levels of the consequences of the violence upon children. Resilience is described as a very important factor that determines how children and families react to traumas. Based on her clinical experience in Unidade da Primeira Infância, the author analyses more systematically the maltreatment inside the family. She describes some of diagnostic difficulties, the transgerational character of the situation and the therapeutic interventions that protect children and help them to develop their mechanisms of resiliency.

Keywords : Violence; resilience; therapeutic interventions.

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