摘要：The intrafamily violence against children and adolescents
constitutes a public health problem and can present itself in various
forms. The professionals who compose the family health team,
among them the community health agent (ACS), are in a strategic
position to identify risks and potential victims of family violence
against children and adolescents. This study has as objective:
identify the understanding of ACS about domestic violence against
children and adolescents. Descriptive study, with a qualitative
nature, which had as scenario two Family Health Units in the city of
Jequi¨¦/BA, and as subjects nine ACS of these units. Data were
analyzed according to content analysis. From empirical data
emerged three categories: understanding of intrafamily violence,
understanding of intrafamily violence against children and
adolescents and types of intrafamily violence against children and
adolescents. The results revealed that the ACS have a broad
understanding in violence, which enable them to identify cases
more easily. In this context, we emphasize that effective coping of
violence against children and adolescents can only be done if
society gather multiple efforts, congregating areas and creating
attention networks, especially at the local level.
关键词：domestic violence; child; adolescent; family health.
