PROCESO PSICOTERAPÉUTICO DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE TERAPEUTAS QUE TRATAN EL ABUSO SEXUAL MENORES DE EDAD: UN ESTUDIO CUALITATIVO

Abstract

The present research aimed to know the approach to the clinical psychologist and therapeutic change in children patients with a clinical picture of sexual abuse from the perspective of 5 women therapists who work or who have participated in interventions with this type of patients, both in specialised centres and in particular attention, in the province of Manabi, in the city of Portoviejo. We used a quantitative methodology, applying standardized surveys to professionals, which provided an explanatory scope to the issue. It focused on three main areas of intervention in child sexual abuse, from the psychological private practice and as public servants, managing to establish the different types of abuse that have been treated since their professional ranks, ages you average of the patients and sex more likely to be victims of sexual abuse in childhood, duration, relations of the aggressors with the assaulted or abused and psychological currents used for cases the vast majority. Among the facilitators, establishing NATO as the primary factor that promotes the therapeutic change, while the characteristics of sexual abuse, such as stress post trauma and the resistance to change, are presented as the hindering. The findings found in the light of the proposal of an explanatory model of the phenomenon are discussed