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Abstract
Objective
Violence against children is a global public health concern. Researchers are increasingly using self-report measures of physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect for population-based surveys. The current gold-standard measure, the 45-item ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool has been used across the world. This study assesses its adequacy for measuring abuse across countries.
Methods
Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses were used to assess the configural, metric and scalar invariance of the measure across nine Balkan countries. Data were…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
Abstract
Background
Experiences in early life lay the foundation for later development and functioning. Severe psychosocial deprivation, as experienced by children in early institutional care, constitutes an adverse experience with long-term negative consequences. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project sought to examine the effects of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for abandoned infants in Romanian institutions.
Methods
At a mean age of 22 months, institutionalized children were randomized to foster care or care as usual. At age 12 years, we…
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study (n = 119) carried out in April 2016 in the largest placement centre in the county of Iași. The aim of the research was to identify the processes that support the good results obtained by the teenagers and young persons who reside here, given that they are subject to numerous risk factors that originate in their past but are still in operation today, but also to their concerns regarding the future. Another objective has been to identify the most effective intervention models for the clients of such institutions in the…
This booklet is based on a recent internal desk review of Save the Children’s and partners’ work against physical and humiliating punishment of children, commissioned by Save the Children Sweden. It aims to present best practices, to show what methods have worked around the world, and to spread knowledge about results achieved and lessons learned when it comes to law reform and positive discipline. The booklet states first and foremost that children have the absolute right to be safe from violence as stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Violence does not have a…
This document is an English language summary brochure of the Manual of Best Practice titled ‘Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe,’ specific to child abandonment in Romania. For the complete manual (in English) please click here.
©In collaboration with: For Our Children Foundation, Life Together Association, University of Copenhagen, University of Lyon, Family Child Youth Association, Paramos Vaikams…
A powerpoint presentation made by the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) group at the January 10th, 2007 Better Care Network Discussion Day in Washington DC. The powerpoint summarizes the BEIP groups findings on the long term impacts of institutional care on young children. Two control groups were used: children who spent some time in institutional care but were then moved into foster homes, and children who were never institutionalized. The findings show that institutional care has long term damaging effects on brain development.
This paper summarizes a workshop focused on separated childen in Europe. The main objectives of the workshop were twofold:
1.) To facilitate competence-building and to strengthen capacities on separated children related to age assessment and identification; and 2) To promote cross-border cooperation and a common understanding of the issues across borders.
©International Save the Children Alliance and UNHCR
In 1990, the world learned about a secret network of prison-like institutions housing thousands of children in Romania. Today, big orphanages are beginning to close as alternatives such as smaller residential homes, mother-child shelters, foster care, and family counseling take hold. Unwanted children were objects to hide and control. Today, Romania is putting the child’s well-being and family support at the center of social policy.
This is the story of how organized human compassion, international political pressure, a willing national government, and local non-governmental organizations…