Violencia filio-parental desde la jurisdicción de menoresfactores de riesgo psicosocial

Abstract

Child to parent violence is an emerging problem becoming increasingly interested in different areas, including legal, with an increase of complaints. Although its dissemination in recent years has contributed to get a better knowledge of the subject, it is necessary to analyze the individual, family and socio-contextual factors of this intolerable phenomenon, in order to unify criteria and adopt specific solutions that face this kind of crime in a multidimensional way. The main goal of this study its to analyze the psychosocial and clinical characteristics of the children denounced by parental violence, the profile of their families and the treatment they received from the Children Court, an aspect that has not been addressed in other studies. The sample was constituted by 145 teenagers between 14 and 18 years old, denounced for Child to parent violence during 6 years (2012-2017). The instruments used in the analysis were the Minerva Procedural Management System, teenager records, reports of the Technical Team and the experimental version of the Personality Assessment Inventory- Adolescent (PAI-A). The results show that the teenagers do not present specific psychopathological symptoms, but difficulties are evident in their family, personal and social context, direct the aggression towards the mothers. Families have difficulties in the marital relationship and the educational guidelines are inadequate. It follows the ordinary legal procedure and highlights the measure of coexistence with the educational group as the most effective judicial intervention for teenagers who mistreat their parents.