Prevention of sexual abuse: improved information is crucial

Chinese Medicine

Jörg M Fegert¹  Katharina A Fuchs²  Hans Zollner² 

[1] Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Ulm, Germany;Istituto di Psicologia – Centre for Child Protection, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome, Italy

关键词: Evaluation;    Effectiveness;    Sexual abuse;    Prevention;   

Others  :  790583
DOI  :  10.1186/1753-2000-8-5

 received in 2013-09-19, accepted in 2014-01-09,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Sexual 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.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Zollner et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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