Nursing Terminology defines domestic violence against children and adolescents

ABSTRACT

Objective:

Identifi cation of terminology relating to nursing practices aimed at children and adolescents at risk of domestic violence.

Methods:

bibliographic descriptive research which selected 40 articles from the Virtual Health Library on domestic violence against children and adolescents, its manifestations, causes, and consequences, in association with nursing procedures for its confrontation and prevention, and which also identifi ed terminology via computer tools.

Results:

17,365 terms that, after standardization and uniformity procedures, resulted in a listing of 915 terms.

Conclusion:

The terminology selected focused on the individual biopsychic nexus and the historic manifestation of this phenomenon was partially identifi ed in terms that appear less frequently in these articles, thereby explaining the contradiction between the formal identifi cation logic of such terminology and the dialectic logic that recognizes the historic reasons for, and dynamicity of, such phenomena.

Descriptors:
Terminology; Classification; Taxonomy; Domestic Violence; Nursing