Violence against children and adolescents with disabilities: narratives with guardianship councilors/Violencia contra criancas e adolescentes com deficiencia: narrativas com conselheiros tutelares

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva 2014-09, Vol.19 (9), p.3869
• Main Authors: Moreira, Martha Cristina Nunes, Bastos, Olga Maria, Bastos, Liliana Cabral, Soares, Ana Helena Rotta, Souza, Waldir da Silva, Sanchez, Rachel Niskier
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• ISSN: 1413-8123; 1678-4561
• DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232014199.12172013

The article is based on Thompson's in-depth hermeneutics with emphasis on meanings produced from narrative analysis of 15 guardianship councilors, seeking to interpret the significance of the councilor's function and ensuring the rights of children and adolescents with disabilities. The conclusion drawn is that certain generic discourses on this theme are presented as an inflexible core which reinforces the invisibility of the population and renders it more vulnerable. At the other extreme, the generic category of being "special" highlights the difficulties of the guardianship councilor in seeking strategies in the institutional network (health, leisure, education) for ensuring the rights and needs of this segment and their families, when failing to differentiate between the various categories of disability. Finally, the acquisition of knowledge by counselors related to this clientele depends greatly on the proximity of these counselors to health institutions that contribute in formulating strategies for guaranteeing rights that form networks. The situations of vulnerability to which counselors are exposed in the relationship between their mandate to respond to the violations suffered by the juvenile segment, and impotence to resolve them are stressed.