DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2016 · 17 citations · 0 references
Public HealthChild HealthPsychologyChild WelfareVictimologyViolence PreventionAbuse PreventionChild AbuseChild MaltreatmentChild Maltreatment PreventionChild Sexual AbuseSexual AbuseChild Sexual Abuse InterventionPersonal Safety Education
Child sexual abuse is a widespread problem that has prompted prevention efforts, including teaching personal safety skills—skills that help children recognize sensitive body parts, resist uncomfortable touches, and report abuse—an approach popularized by Bagley and King in 2004. This paper explains child sexual abuse and explores how teaching personal safety skills can prevent it. Children who receive personal safety skills are more likely to recognize, resist, and report situations that facilitate sexual abuse.
The increasingly widespread phenomenon of children sexual abuse lead to intervention and prevention efforts in overcome the malicious effects of sexual abuse against children. Various ideas have been triggered mental health experts, in order to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse against children. One of many efforts that praised by international community is teaching personal safety skills to children, this method was popularized by Bagley and King in 2004. Personal safety skills are a set of skills that need to be owned by children, so that they can refrain themselves from perpetrators of sexual abuse and the situations that allow sexual abuse, children are also taught to recognize the sensitive parts of their body, how to maintain personal limbs of another person touches that make them uncomfortable, and reported perpetrators of sexual abuse to trusted adult. This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of sexual abuse against children, and how the prevention of children sexual abuse can be done through teaching personal safety skills. Children with personal safety skills have a strong tendency to recognize, resist and report the situations that allow sexual abuse.