Reticências: methodological design of a diagnostic and pedagogical tool

Abstract

The issue of child abuse is a public health problem and therefore needs to be consciously and thoughtfully studied. The specialized literature, besides defining theissueand itsconstructs, highlightstheimportance of designing tool sallied to public policies for protection and safety. Reticências was designed in respect of the 16th Sustainable Development Goal - Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions – and therefore, it is a social innovation project, designed to respond to social needs and problems regarding this issue. This project started from the problem of child abuse, from a systemic point of view, in order to achieve the objective of creating an instrument that would serve as a diagnosis and at the same time have a pedagogical character. A narrative literature review was conducted, so the approach was based on the qualitative method. In order to ensure the relevance of the construction of the tool, SWOT analysis is incorporated. In order to achieve the objective, the construction of the tool was designed to incorporate the term “abuse” and its inherent typologies, the risk and protection factors, the legal instruments and the Bio-ecological model of human development, which is also used to understand violence and the quality circle time strategy, as it is considered a powerful intervention strategy. This symbiosis resulted in the design of a game, which is currently being pre-tested, awaiting the authorization of the competent entities, in order to be tested in schools, with children of first and second cycle. We hope to demonstrate the coherence of the construction and the scientific validity of a diagnostic tool to detect possible situations of risk and/or danger, as well as its pedagogical usefulness, which capacitates children and helps professionals to detect possible abusive situations.