Educators in the face of child sexual violence

This book presents an analysis of the training of educators participating in the extension course Escola que Protege, offered by the Centre for Psychological Studies on Street Children of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In it, the organizational, theoretical and methodological strategies of the course are highlighted, as well as the subjective impact of the theme infant-youth sexual violence on the educators-course participants. The authors show that contact with this theme mobilizes subjectivity and contributes to the psychological suffering of these professionals, as one teacher expressed: "What shocked me most (...) and made me very ill, was the part about sexual violence in childhood (...). It's a very heavy subject". A reality experienced in the school space, which explains the anguish of these education workers in facing the situations of sexual violence that affect children and adolescents. The authors emphasize that, in addition to equipping the educators to deal with such violence, the training needs to establish collective spaces for speaking and listening, in order to welcome the uneasiness of these workers faced with the sexual violence that affects children and adolescents.