Analysis of Representations of the Aid That Public Psychological Support Points Provide to Adolescent Female Victims of Gender-Based Violence: Reformulation of Policies and Practices

Isabel Cuadrado-Gordillo, Guadalupe Martín-Mora-Parra and Ismael Puig-Amores
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Isabel Cuadrado-Gordillo: Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Guadalupe Martín-Mora-Parra: Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Ismael Puig-Amores: Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 14, 1-21

Abstract: Gender-based violence in adolescence has become a social health problem that is creating great concern and interest worldwide. In this regard, knowledge of the role taken by the professionals responsible for screening, detecting, referring, and caring for adolescent victims is essential to be able to understand the phenomenon and its characteristics in a practical way. In this sense, psychologists specialising in the care of victims of adolescent gender-based violence have complete and in-depth knowledge, not only of the phenomenon itself and the way in which it is presented in society, but also of the features presented by these victims and the aspects that need to be worked on during the intervention process. Given this context, a series of interviews with psychologists specialised in the care of gender-based violence victims were subjected to a qualitative deductive/inductive analysis. These interviews addressed the psychologists’ theoretical-practical knowledge about the adolescent gender-based violence phenomenon. The analysis of the results points to the victims’ irrational ideas regarding abusive relationships, to the form in which Psychological Support Points are organised to help the victims, and to the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of these centres for them to be able to improve their operation and effectiveness in providing comprehensive care for adolescents beyond the psychological consultations themselves.

Keywords: gender-based violence; adolescents; qualitative study; psychological intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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