Transcript Finkelhor – `Steps towards prevention`

Where’s child sexual
abuse gone?
Have we fixed it?
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Prevention
If every child really does
matter……?
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What do you want them to do?
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What do they need to know?
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A
Comprehensive Strategy
for
Child Sexual Abuse
Prevention
(where does social work fit in?)
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Outline
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-Scale of the problem
-Model to understand abusing, abusers, victims,
and families
-Public Health model for prevention
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The prevalence of child sexual abuse
Sources:- Wyatt 1985; Finkelhor 1979 &1989; Briere 1990; Cawson 2000
10%-20%
20%-30%
Women
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Men
Finkelhor – ‘Four pre-conditions to
sexual abuse’
Adapted from:- D Finkelhor Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory & Research 1986
Sex with
a child
Thoughts
MOTIVATION
‘Wanting to’
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INTERNAL
INHIBITORS
‘Conscience’
EXTERNAL
INHIBITORS
‘Others’
(Creating
Opportunity)
OVERCOME
VICTIM
RESISTANCE
‘Doing it and getting
away with it’
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` Targets: –
• Adult abusers and potential abusers: to encourage them
to recognise their behaviour as abusive and seek help to
change.
• Family and friends: to encourage them to recognise the
signs of abusive behaviour in those close to them and to
seek advice about what action to take.
• Parents of children and young people with worrying
sexually behaviour : to encourage them to recognise
signs of abusive behaviour in their children and seek
advice about what to do.
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Prevention –
what it might look like
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Twelve points of focus for preventative action
Primary
prevention
Offenders
Victims
Situations
Families
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Secondary
prevention
Tertiary
prevention
Primary
prevention
Developmental
prevention
Offenders
Identification of
worrying
behaviours in
children
Education on
boundaries,
relationships etc Confidential
Helplines
Resiliencebuilding
Good
attachments
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Secondary
prevention
Counselling for
at-risk
individuals
Tertiary
prevention
Prison/Special
Hospital
Offender
treatment
(convicted only?)
Management in
the community
(MAPPA)
Circles of Support
and
Accountability
Primary
prevention
Resiliencebuilding
Victims
Positive
relationships
Personal safety
programmes
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Secondary
prevention
Tertiary
prevention
Counselling and
Early detection
support for at-risk
children
Confidential
helplines
Support and
counselling
Preventing
repeat
victimisation
Primary
prevention
Good
parent/child
attachment
Families
&
Communities
Public
education eg
internet safety,
“Parents
Protect”
Secondary
prevention
Support for at- Interventions
risk families
and education
Interventions
with at-risk
communities
Confidential
helplines
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Tertiary
prevention
Counselling
and support
Risk
management
plans
Finkelhor – ‘Steps towards prevention’
Adapted from:- D Finkelhor Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory & Research 1986
Sex with
a child
Thoughts
MOTIVATION
INTERNAL
INHIBITORS
EXTERNAL
INHIBITORS
OVERCOME
VICTIM
RESISTANCE
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