Acolhimento institucional para adolescentes: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

The Children Act determines that when adolescents have their rights threatened or violated, protective measures must be implemented. Among them it was assessed the need for the child to move away from his family of origin, applied as a way of protection in an institution destined for this purpose. This article seeks to examine thescientific output of welcoming and sheltering the youth in Brazil. It intended to further check the health of the adolescent sheltered, to guide public decisions and policies of intervention and also access the health care of these institutionalized adolescents. This is a systematic review, the search was executed on electronic databases of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the Virtual Health Library (VHL), published in the period between 2011 and 2016. The chosen descriptors for the search were: housing, institutional care, foster care, orphanage,acquaintanceship and community life, institutionalized adolescents, and protective measure. The results implied several issues around sheltered children and adolescents, especially regarding the psychological aspects of those protected, health studies denote depression. However, there are few works dedicated to the understanding and production of knowledge on the aspects related to the practice, especially successful institutional host, protective measure as of extreme relevance.