The Psychologist’s Role in the Process of Listening to Children Victims of Sexual Violence in Legal Proceedings

Abstract

This work presents a set of interpretations made by the psychologist regarding the procedure for listening to children who are victims of sexual violence in legal proceedings based on the Doctrine of Integral Protection of the child. Documental surveys were carried out on the procedures for taking special statements from children in legal proceedings. Under the light of Winnicott's theory of emotional development, based on academic experience and extension activities, a personalized and dynamic qualitative method of investigation, essentially constructive-interpretative, was used to interpret the listening procedures. The result demonstrates that the discussion of the theme is recent in the world and that the biggest obstacle to a consensus regarding a procedure that proposes the non-revictimization of child victims of sexual violence in legal proceedings is to understand and study the limits of psychological science and legal science with a view to the Doctrine of Integral Protection.