gender-based violence and health: intervention in a

Louise Bourgeois, 1950

I Seminário Internacional “Amor, Medo e Poder” FPCEUP, Maio 2011 _________________________________________________

Carminda Morais

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HEALTH:

INTERVENTION IN A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE


Summary

Introduction

Problematic

Health intervention

. systemic perspective

. voices of health workers

reception

monitoring

apprehended

success

impact of this work in their lives

Conclusion


INTRODUCTION

Gender violence:

Human Rights

Serious health problem

COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH


PROBLEM: gender violence and health

Suicide Attempt - 600%

Poison 79%.

Likely to have children doubles

(In) success of their own and their children

(Barros, 2008)

CRISIS


GENDER VIOLENCE AND HEALTH

Suffering physical, psychological and spiritual

Social, family, cultural and economic

Replication intergenerational

Curtail the exercise of citizenship

Health Promotion

salutogenic paradigm (Antonovsky, 1991)

life cycle

settings

Prevention at different levels

HEALTH: INTERVENTION IN A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION -

Violence is viewed as the result of a complex interaction

between multivariate factors and, as such, is addressed in a

logic of "shared responsibility

Ecological Model

Victims

Aggressors

Social support networks (primary and secondary)



PRELIMINARY INFORMATION

Reception: "comprehensive reading in various professional areas"

Use of different strategies based on the singularity and

stage of the cases:

“ reception is crucial to the relationship with the technicians (...)



PRELIMINARY INFORMATION

(...) We make the network map and genogram

(...) to safeguard that we will not at all exacerbate the situation "

(...) host, this intervention with the primary network, other

Sometimes it is with the secondary network and others with a

mixed network

(...) some offenders do not have to join a group profile,

(...) relaxation and massage (...) "E.


•Monitoring: Speakers different "

"along with the networks of support, with the service networks

go together and outlining strategies to the blurring of the tensions

•of their own risk.

realize that there are other people also require a specific intervention

for itself (...) are called the consultation "E

"group interventions (...) Individual psychotherapy orientation

dynamic "E2.


“Monitoring: Speakers different "

"intervention with other victims, in different stages (...) some

have walked in previous years "E

"The idea is we limit these spaces clear. (...) we always stress that it

is very important to each have your space as people and also have

their space in couples' E2


Questions:

"A systemic perspective was always seen in a reductive"

"Mechanism of corruption to the professionals, particularly

women "

"Complaint but alongside other strategies ..."


Success: "witness the reverse of the medal"

"(...) on (...) would be very risky to give him a time

. It is their time

(...) which are again asking for help (...) ask for help sooner.

(...) better quality of life. The suffering was dimmed (...)

Empowerment of families themselves "E


Impact on the lives of professionals

(...) self-examination (E2)

(...) family support (E, E1, E2)

formal supervision, which also exists, but also the supervision

informal (...) and colleagues (E, E1, E2) horizontality in the way

decisions are made and reported, a lot of sharing (E1)

people who live or have lived closely situations of violence have

their violence and resolved


Conclusion:

Gender violence and health,

under the systemic perspective

bringing out the specifics,

regularities but also the singularities

discourses of health professionals


BIBLIOGRAPHY ANTONOVSKY, A. (1987). Unravelling the mystery of health: how people Manage stress and stay well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ANTONOVSKY, A. (1990). Studying Health Vs. Studying Disease. Lecture at the Congress for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. Berlin, 19 February. Retrieved [2002-04-02] from http://www.angelfire.com/OK/SOC/ aberlim.html 232 ANTONOVSKY, A. (1991).The salutogenic approach to family system health: Promise and danger. European Congress on Mental Health in European Families. Prague, 5-8 May. Retrieved [2002-04-02] from http://www.angelfire.com/OK/SOC/agolem.html ANTONOVSKY, A. (1993a). The Sense of Coherence: An Historical and Future Perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 36, pp. 3-20.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY ANTONOVSKY, A. (1996). The salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion. Health Promotion International, 1, pp. 13-17. BARROS, Pedro Pita (2008). Custos Sociais e Económicos da Violência Exercida Contra as Mulheres em Portugal: dinâmicas e processos socioculturais. Comunicação apresentada no VI Congresso Português de Sociologia. LISBOA, Manuel (2007). Prevenir ou Remediar. Os custos sociais da violência contra as mulheres.Lisboa: Gabinete de Investigação em Sociologia Aplicada. Ciêncais Sociais e Humanas da Universidade de Lisboa. OMS, 2005. Estudio multipaís de la OMS sobre salud de la mujer y violencia doméstica


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Carminda Morais

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