Psychological approach to cases of child abuse and maltreatment, Uruguay

This monographic work intends to understand the paths that are taken when faced with situations of child abuse and maltreatment detected in public schools. The bibliographic analysis on the subject will be articulated with the personal academic experience during the process of intervention in a Public School in Montevideo in 2012, in which we worked with children who lived situations of Abuse and Mistreatment. From this academic experience, questions arise in relation to the process of approach that took place in the school and the role of the psychologist in an environment that is governed by the institutional rules of the public school. The approach to the subject will aim to investigate and understand the ways in which situations of child abuse and mistreatment detected in the school institution are addressed, as well as the use and viability of the Road Map, of the Council of Initial and Primary Education, in its latest edition (2013), a tool designed to guide the officials of this institution in the detection of situations of mistreatment and abuse.