A punição física de crianças com deficiência mental no ambiente doméstico

• Autor(a) principal: Alexandre, Paulo Pinto
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22603
• topic: punição física; deficiência mental; maus-tratos infantis; relacionamento entre pais e filhos; violência doméstica contra a criança; physical punishment; infantile mistreatments; relationship between parents and children; domestic violence against the child; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The objectives of this study were: 1) describes the severe physical punishment and non-severe physical punishment against the children from the age of 0 to 12 years old with clinical diagnosis of mental deficiency in the family environment, in the last 12 months; 2) investigate whether these children's parents suffered any type of severe or non-severe physical punishment in their childhood and adolescence; and 3) whether the parent s severe or nonsevere physical punishment has any association with the physical punishment that they now practice against their children. Based on a traverse-cut study, a sample of 132 families was analyzed and the information given by the children's parents. These children attend a rehabilitation clinic of a private institution in the boundaries of São Paulo city ou in the metropolitan area o São Paulo, in the State of São Paulo. The definition of serious evere physical punishment and non-severe physical punishment against children was accomplished starting from the Brazilian pilot study of the World Studies of Abuse in Family Environments. The definition of severe physical punishment and non-severe physical punishment against the parents was accomplished using the survey questionnaire made by Drª Viviane Nogueira Guerra, researcher of the Child's Laboratory (LACRI) of the Institute of Psychology of USP/SP. The structured questionnaires were applied by trained interviewers. The physical punishment among children with mental deficiency of this sample was frequent: 12,1% had suffered severe physical punishment and 60,6% non- severe physical punishment. The boys tend to be hit more than the girls (OR = 2,1, p = 0,08). Besides, the children of the s who were victims of punishment in their childhood or adolescence have bigger chances to be punished physically than the children of the parents who had not been victims of punishment (OR=1,2; p=0,01). The frequency of physical punishment among children with mental deficiency seems to be as high as among children without deficiency and the transgeracionality becomes clear in this study. Therefore, preventions are necessary. This is to minimize the effects of the physical punishment against the children with deficiency and avoid its repetition, once the rates in this study are high.