INTRAFAMILY PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST ADOLESCENT GIRLS

Abstract

The book analyzed intrafamilial psychological violence directed at adolescent girls aged 12 to 18 in the Brazilian context, seeking to understand its risk factors, biopsychosocial impacts, and prevention strategies. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that dialogues with studies of power, surveillance, and subjectivation, including Foucauldian readings, and with the national literature on intrafamilial violence, the research employed document analysis and content analysis techniques to systematize evidence found in statutes, reports, and academic production. The results indicate that psychological violence does not occur in isolation but is woven together with structural determinants such as poverty, housing insecurity, and low educational attainment; authoritarian relational patterns, for example humiliation, control, and intergenerational transmission, and institutional weaknesses, with underreporting, absent protocols, and insufficient training identified. The importance of an intersectional approach also becomes evident: Black girls and those living in peripheral territories experience greater invisibility and reduced access to protection. Regarding impacts, the study found emotional (anxiety, depression), cognitive and educational (declining performance, school dropout), physical, and relational repercussions, as well as a risk of intergenerational reproduction of violence. In addition to shedding light on the problem of psychological violence against girls and the difficulty of identifying this type of abuse, the present work seeks to map the normative framework for prevention and protection against child violence, grounded in the Doctrine of Comprehensive Protection inaugurated in Brazil with the Federal Constitution of 1988 (Art. 227). The evaluation of prevention strategies reveals promising initiatives (school-based training, community spaces), but with limitations in scope, funding, and monitoring. The dissertation concludes by proposing the standardization of indicators, ongoing professional training, strengthening of intersectoral networks, and territorially targeted affirmative policies as ways to turn the normative framework into effective protection for adolescent girls.