Family orientation group as a strategy for care in chemical codependency.

Objectives: To determine the importance of the family support group in the treatment of codependency, based in reports made by relatives of a therapeutic community for drug addicts.

Methods: Study conducted in a therapeutic community for alcohol and other drug addicts in a city in the southern extreme of Brazil. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research with eight drug addict relatives.

(In)visibility of notifications of violence against children and adolescents registered in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Objectives: To know the perception of health, education and social service professionals about the records and notifications of violence against children and adolescents, carried out in a municipality in the south of Brazil.

Methods: This is an exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative approach, specifically developed in places that integrate children and adolescents victims of violence. Ten professionals participated, including three nurses, one doctor, two social workers, two psychologists, one tutor, and one educator.

Protection of children and adolescents victims of violence: the views of the professionals of a specialized service.

Objectives: To know the obstacles faced by the professionals to work in network and challenges of the work of the professionals in the Reference Center Specialized in Social Assistance (CREAS) of a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil.

Methods: It is a qualitative study, developed with twelve professionals of a CREAS. Data collection was performed through a semi-structured interview, from April to May 2016.

Reporting of violence against children and adolescents in a protective institution in southern Brazil.

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the reports of violence against children and adolescents in the period between January 2009 and May 2014 in a municipality protection institution of Rio Grande, RS.

Methods: This is a descriptive and documentary study with a quantitative approach that analyzed 800 medical records of Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS), from the development of a research instrument containing the study variables.

Results: The results show that 44.

Safety and protection for hospitalized children: literature review.

This narrative-descriptive review is about the safety/protection of hospitalized children who, due to their fragility, vulnerability and peculiar growth and development conditions need special attention from health professionals. This study aimed to identify knowledge production on safety, protection and violence to hospitalized children between 1997 and 2007. In total, 15 national and international articles were analyzed, using the key words: hospitalized child, safety, violence and nursing.

Violence against children and adolescents: A challenge in the daily work of the nursing team.

This article aims to reflect on various forms of violence against children and adolescents practiced in the family context, and the importance of professional nursing care in view of this phenomenon. We discuss possibilities of care and violence prevention as well as the problems violence causes to society. Violence is a social and historical problem, constructed in society, and needs to be adequately addressed in academic nursing education.

[Violence against children from the perspective of the nurse: an issue of health and education].

This paper is about aspects related to the theme of violence and its implications in Health, Nursing and Education. It focuses on the importance of the education of the professional to face the problem of intrafamilial violence against children by stressing the nurse's role as an educator and by interpreting it within the context of the author's experience with children who are victims of intrafamilial violence.