Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms: A Guide for Professionals

ISBN-13: 9781032426808 / Angielski

Catherine Knibbs

Opis

This sensitive guide for professionals who work with children and young people explains the serious issues of sexual content and harm that children face online, and how they impact developmental, neurological and social development, and mental health and wellbeing. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers parents and professionals clear, evidence-based information about sexual based online harm, its effects, and what they can do to support children should they see, hear or bear witness to these events online.

Catherine Knibbs, specialist advisor in the field, explains the issues involved when using online platforms and devices in family, social and educational settings. Examined in as non-traumatising a way as possible, the book covers key topics including: Consent, pornography; online grooming; sexting; live streaming; revenge porn; ASD sexuality and gender; and vigilantism. Offering guidance and proactive and reactive strategies based in neuroscience and child development, it reveals how e-safety is not one size fits all and must consider individual children’s and families’ vulnerabilities.

Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms will equip professionals with the knowledge to support their work and direct conversations about the harms online that children and young people face. It is essential reading for those training and working with children in psychological, educational and social work contexts, as well as parents, policy makers and those involved in development of online technologies.

O autorze

Catherine Knibbs is a clinical and academic researcher, consultant in the fields of cybertrauma and online harms, director of Privacy4 Ltd, and a UKCP-accredited child and adult trauma psychotherapist.