Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care: Prevention Skills for At-Risk Children

ISBN-13: 9780789000880 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 136 str.

Toni C. Johnson

Opis

Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care brings into the open current or past sexually, physically, or emotionally abusive behaviors between children or between children and their caregivers in out-of-home care and helps prevent future victimization. The curriculum gives you 20 exercises that promote respectful and nurturing interactions among caregivers and children by offering healthy concepts of touching, communication, and boundaries. By implementing the concepts in this curriculum, you'll help create positive, healthy attachments for children in out-of-home care who may feel abandoned and alone.

Exercises in Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care assist children and caregivers in understanding their rights and others'rights in residential treatment centers and group or foster homes. Exercises focus on:

• communication on a continuum--teaches children and staff about their own communication and the communications they receive from others
• a touch continuum--provides an excellent vehicle for discussing the comforting and soothing touch children need and how to differentiate this from eight other types of touch
• differentiating sexual play from problematic sexual contact between children--helps children and staff talk about sex
• personal space and boundaries--discusses these as areas of major violations in children who have been abused
• sexual knowledge--teaches the body parts and their functions
• discovering what a sex offender does to trick children into situations that end up in sexual abuse--asks the children to make rules that assist other children to recognize unsafe situations, and then gives them the opportunity to create a video, pamphlet, advertisement, or commercial to tell other kids these rules
  
  This curriculum is unique because it can be completed through children and adults talking together. It assumes that there will be difficulties and conflicts between staff and children and among children themselves and provides a forum in which to raise and discuss these issues. You'll find the curriculum perfect for caregiver training or as exercises caregivers and children do together. You'll also find it very useful for working with children's families either in family sessions or in multifamily groups.

O autorze

Toni Cavanagh Johnson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in South Pasadena, California. She has been working in the field of child abuse for 19 years as a researcher, trainer, and clinician. For the past 11 years, she has provided highly specialized treatment for children who are under 12 and have sexual behavior problems. Her research on boys and girls who molest other children has been published in Child Abuse and Neglect and her treatment program for these children appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The author of the Child Sexuality Curriculum for Abused Children and Their Parents and Treatment Exercises for Abused Children and Children with Sexual Behavior Problems, she is the developer of a game for sexually abused and sexually agressive children and a game for victims of incest. Dr. Johnson is also co-author of the book Sexualized Children: The Assessment and Treatment of Sexualized Children and Children Who Molest.Dr. Johnson has lectured on child abuse throughout the United States and in Australia, New Zealand, South America, Europe, and Canada. She provides consultation to protective service workers, mental health professionals, attorneys, the police, probation officers, and the courts in the area of sexual victimization and perpetration.