Impact of psychological care to adolescent victims of sexual abuse

Abstract

An intervention type research was conducted, which is classified as a pre-experiment with pre and post evaluation, with quantitative and qualitative methodological supports to evaluate the impact of psychological care to adolescent girls, between 10 - 14 years old, victims of sexual abuse, at the Community Mental Health Center ¨ Graciela Bustillos ¨ in Las Tunas, in the period from January 2014 to January 2019. The sample consisted of 28 adolescent female victims of sexual abuse who attended the services of care for victims of violence. The specific objectives outlined took their course from the use, according to their procedures, of interviews, a questionnaire and other psychological techniques. All of them provided the necessary elements to develop the psychological intervention with its educational, counseling and/or therapeutic actions, and finally the evaluation. The results show that 50% of the perpetrators are stepfathers and 70% of the sexual abuse situations occurred in the victims' homes. Among the conclusions we found that the characteristics of the victims, the most represented age was 13 years old, and the predominant reaction to the abusive situation was continuous resistance.