Abuso sexual contra crianças: em busca de uma compreensão centrada na pessoa

The present paper is a reflection about the sexual violence phenomenon, especially sexual abuse practiced against children and its implications on the consolidation of the self of these subjects. This paper also debates that question based on the person centered approach. It has a bibliographic sort. At the first moment it is established a discussion about the sexual violence, its types and ways of action. It focalizes the term “sexual abuse” of children besides the today`s childhood’s historical debate of sense. The second moment brings the significance of self or “self concept” on psychological terms and defines it on the center of the psychology of development and the Person Centered Approach. At the third part, the paper defines a relation between the concept of self and the sexual violence phenomenon. One of the more important considerations it is that this phenomenon has a very hard identification, and the study, inside Psychology field it’s found dispersed, which the own Psychology Science is dispersed itself. It can be seen with this study that there is rare knowledge about the consolidation of self on children, those who are victims of this kind of violence. An important verification it is that the person centered approach position can define an efficient instrument at the attending of this demand, purposing positions and different ways of view. Finally, this paper is suggesting that more papers and studies at university should be developed, multiplying the knowledge on this area which is necessary.