%0 Journal Article
%T Dados demogr¨¢ficos, psicol¨®gicos e comportamentais de crian£¿as e adolescentes v¨ªtimas de abuso sexual
%A Serafim
%A Antonio de P¨¢dua
%A Saffi
%A Fabiana
%A Ach¨¢
%A Maria Fernanda Faria
%A Barros
%A Daniel Martins de
%J Revista de Psiquiatria Cl¨ªnica
%D 2011
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0101-60832011000400006
%X background: there is a well known relationship between sexual abuse in children and mental health disorders, which is seen both in clinical practice as in the scientific literature. objective: to describe demographic profile as well as behavioral and emotional features of a cohort of children and adolescents sexually abused. m¨¦todo: 205 children and adolescent, ranging from 6 to 14 years old, 130 girls (age 9.6 ¡À 3.4 yo) and 75 boys (age 7.2 ¡À 2.9 yo) were evaluated due to being victims of sexual abuse between the years 2005 and 2009. gender, age, relationship with the perpetrator, psychological and psychiatric symptoms, behavioral and affective-emotional features (blame, shame, fearfulness, male and female figures image and self perception) were all properly evaluated. results: girls were the main victims (63.4%). the riskier age ranging from 7 to 10 yo (48.5%) among then, and from 3 to 6 yo (54.6%) for the boys. fathers are the major perpetrators (38%) followed by step-fathers (29%). boys and girls show high risk for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) symptoms. girls tend to be more sexualized whilst boys tend to isolate themselves. discussion: this research allowed to identify an important set of psychological, psychiatric and behavioral characteristics that affect the normal emotional development of children and adolescents.
%K sexual abuse
%K mental disorders
%K infancy
%K adolescence.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-60832011000400006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en