Interview with Professor Marisalva Fávero

Be sure to read the interview with Professor Marisalva Fávero on child sexual abuse.
“Psychological intervention with victims of sexual abuse requires specialized training”

Excerpts from the interview:

“MFF – Continued sexual abuse is, for me, cloistered, imprisoned, a state similar to that experienced in concentration camps. It generates, in the victim, depersonalization, lack of control over his body, his emotions, (Perrone and Naninni), which illustrate this situation, which is the result of the fact that there is no way to escape from this situation. Loneliness and helplessness: “The child is in a situation of exile.It is part of the adult world without being integrated and participates in the world of children without being able to belong to it.Therefore it is doomed to silence! “I” assigned “the Anglo-Saxon expression Disclosure (used to indicate the revelation of sexual abuse) in a text that is about to be published (” Because Unclosure is more than revealing a secret as well Saved “). The message of hope is that “unlocking” is possible. Therapy is imperative in these cases. It is necessary to have the senses in a state of alert, to realize when a child or adolescent is to be victim. It is a phenomenon of silence, of course, but the human being does not communicate with words alone – the victims say they made attempts to reveal, they sent signs, which were not considered. On the other hand, it is imperative to invest in prevention programs. In a study in which I participated in the evaluation of a prevention program at all levels of schooling at the University of Salamanca (with Amaia Del Campo and Felix López), 10 students (eight from the experimental group and two from the control group ) Revealed, during the implementation of the Program, that they were or were being victimized. ”

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“MFF – I have collaborated with the Projeto Crear Association, which has the GIAC (Interdisciplinary Child Support Offices in Porto, Vila do Conde, Braga and Lisbon) and offers psychological, social and legal intervention to the victims. , The first specialized service in Portugal, was created in December 2008. The first Crisis Center was created in December to support women and girls who survived sexual violence in the City of Lisbon, the first specialized service in Portugal. Enlargement to the country. “