ABSTRACT
Objective
To reflect on violence against children and adolescents in psychic suffering, and nursing care based on social phenomenology.
Method
Theoretical study based on the conceptions of Alfred Schütz.
Results
The subject in psychic suffering shows conflicts in family relationships, and is often immersed in a biographical situation that removes their autonomy, contributing violence itself. Violence is a social phenomenon expressed through power relations in the everyday world and, through group relationships, resulting in suffering for the victims.
Conclusions
Studies performed by Schütz enable a new look for the nursing care/health professionals who deal with this problem by allowing them to know the biographical situation, and have full stock of knowledge about their patients, their motivations and the meanings these patients attribute to their experiences. This enables the overcoming of the biomedical model and leads to valuing interpersonal relations from the perspective of a culture of peace.
Nursing; Violence; Child health; Adolescent health; Philosophy, nursing