The The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in a group with women who underwent violence situations

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the hardships of facing domestic violence were evidenced, accentuating problems related to access and mobilization of the victim’s support-group. In this scenario, the current experience report aims to present discussions about the Projeto de Extensão MARÉ - Mulheres em Acolhimento, Reflexão e Escuta, focusing on the Psychology praxis and the experiences of the members during the pandemic context. The MARÉ constitutes itself as a device-group in line with the theoretical and methodological methods of the Social Community Psychology and the Feminist Studies with an intersectional perspective, aiming to promote a space for welcoming and community strengthening with women who undergone violence situations. Over the years of 2020 and 2021, 15 women were welcomed by the group in the on-line modality. Based on the work made during this period, it was possible to perceive that, when the existing vulnerabilities were intensified as unemployment and gender violence, the group revealed itself as a space of hearing, a place for construction of mutual support-groups and reinvention of collective ways of resistance that potentiate autonomy and the security of rights. Also, the importance of a professional ethical-political posture that invests in the group relations from the recognition and appreciation of the community knowledge became apparent.