Elements of Social Reality Involved in Caring for Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

To describe the elements of social reality involved in caring for victims of childhood sexual abuse. Grounded Theory study under development since 2022 in public reference services in Brazil and Portugal. Multiple data collection techniques were used: participant observation, interviews and story-drawing. Seventy social actors involved in caring for children and adolescents took part. Parallel collection/analysis included hypothesis formulation, reflexivity, drawing up memos and diagrams. The interviews/stories were coded and applied to the Paradigmatic Model, both conducted using NVivo software and interpreted according to Symbolic Interactionism. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee. In the context called "influences of social reality", four preliminary categories stand out, each supported by four subcategories: 1) the condition component: "Participating in the social conditions of victims of childhood sexual abuse"; 2) the action-interaction component called "Silencing society in the face of episodes of child and adolescent sexual abuse"; and 3) the consequence component "Identifying the interferences of social reality in caring for victims". The reality of modern society has structural elements that are often harmful to the care of victims of childhood sexual abuse. These elements are backdrops that increase conditions of vulnerability, contribute to the silencing of social actors and the non-accountability of perpetrators. aggressors.