Prevention of sexual abuse: Improved information is crucial

dc.contributor.authorZollner, S. J., Fuchs, K. A., & Fegert, J. M.
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-10T17:29:15Z
dc.date.available2014-03-10T17:29:15Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractSexual abuse can lead to long-lasting, even life-long, consequences and is a serious problem on an individual, familial and societal level. Therefore, prevention measures on different levels are a public health issue. Minors as well as adults should be involved in prevention work in order to prevent sexual abuse of minors in a sustainable way. Besides norms, structures and values in society, the respective laws as well as attitudes and structures should be changed and amended in such a way that abusers and the abuse are clearly confronted everywhere. In the last decades, numerous prevention programs for victims have been developed for various target groups (e.g. parenting education classes, home-visiting programs, public education, training sessions for teachers, E-Learning Programs of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Centre for Child Protection). Many of these programs have proven partially effective. Nevertheless, until now there is no consensus in the scientific community on what constitutes effectiveness in this context. Reasons for this are the discrepancies in definitions or the scarcity of attention which the evaluation of prevention measures has received.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZollner, S. J., Fuchs, K. A., & Fegert, J. M. (2014). Prevention of sexual abuse: Improved information is crucial. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health, 8(1), 1-9.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.capmh.com/content/pdf/1753-2000-8-5.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/1308
dc.publisherChild & Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Healthen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectevaluationen_US
dc.titlePrevention of sexual abuse: Improved information is crucialen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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