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Women and gender violence. Learning from an experience of theatre in training
Maria Grazia Castorina
Women and gender violence. Learning from an experience of theatre in training - The article reports the educational experience of a theatrical performance used as a learning tool on gender violence and trauma outcomes. The performance, created ad hoc, is proposed at the end of a long and complex process of training for social workers, psychologists, lawyers and operators of Juvenile Justice. The training is part of a larger project, which aims to strengthen the reality of anti-violence centres in support of children and women victims of family violence and maltreatment.
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Internet e prevenzione dell’abuso sessuale ai minori: una relazione a doppio binario
A cura di Alberto Pellai
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Internet and children’s online sexual victimization: What we know, what research evidence we have, what we should do to prevent it
Simone Curti, Raffaella D'Errico, Marco Gaietta, Elena Garavelli, Massimiliano Greco, Serena Trovati, Francesca Visco, Alberto Pellai
Internet and children’s online sexual victimization: What we know, what research evidence we have, what we should do to prevent it - Internet and new media are new tools sometimes used by people who want to sexually interact with minors. Epidemiological studies show increasing online victimization of minors (and related arrests); victims are often consenting and aware of having contact with unknown adults, but rarely talk about these experiences with significant adults (parents/ teachers). The risk of being exposed to sexual contents on the web increases with age (being greater for adolescents than younger children) and is higher for females. Effective preventive strategies should include not only normative interventions, but also educational programs, aimed at helping youngsters to gain skills in order to face the new challenges they are exposed to, according to the WHO life skills approach. Key words: Internet, sex, adolescents, epidemiology.
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Minors on Internet and hazardous behaviour
Michele Mainardi, Lara Zgraggen
Minors on Internet and hazardous behaviour - The study "Minors on Internet and hazardous behaviour" collates and analyses the responses of 750 school-age pupils from 35 classes from 11 different primary and middle schools in Southern Switzerland, aged between 8 and 16, regarding their web behaviour, their Internet utilisation habits and, more generally, their PC utilisation habits. The results show: (1) daily and widespread capillary-like utilisation of the PC and of the Internet for the entire age-band studied, (2) a relative or partial perception of the risks and crimes and (3) very personal forms of reaction and assessment, often inadequately considered and ingenuous, regarding situations that arise online.
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Psychological abuse on infancy: problems and intervention in criminal context
Francesca Grignani
Psychological abuse on infancy: problems and intervention in criminal context - The aim of this paper is to analyse psychological child abuse in family relationships and, in particular, its treatment in criminal context. The main topics investigated concern the expression of problems this kind of abuse faces in criminal law context, the construction of a criminal proceedings model, as has been suggested by two Public Prosecutors and a Judge of Milan Criminal Court and the analysis of a second and third degree judgement about a crime of this kind. The conclusion we reach underlines that it should be necessary to proceed always in the child’s interest. In other words it should be indispensable to provide a clear definition of emotional abuse to a normative level, and to provide for a criminal prosecution when it’s necessary. In contrast, it should be useful to plan a family reconstruction course, in case of parents’ resilience.
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Parents and the Internet: approaches to Internet usage by minors
Michele Mainardi, Lara Zgraggen, Chiara Balerna
Parents and the Internet: approaches to Internet usage by minors - The study of hazardous behaviour and concurrent factors shows the concurrence of a number of variables leading to the adoption of a cognisant and safe standpoint regarding online and offline computer activities, and a widespread reticence in the subjects studied, 750 boys and girls aged between 8 and 16, in notifying someone (friends, teachers or family members) of unusual, disturbing or unwelcome experiences that they have had on the web. The awareness of the risks associated with the Internet would appear to have a substantial effect on web behaviour, but the joint presence of some influential factors (information, existence of rules, frequency of use and positioning of the PC) makes a particularly significant impact on the expression of behavioural forms that are cautious and safe to varying extents.
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I am unique and special: Education to sexuality as prevention from abuse. An experience in the area of Alba and Bra
Maria Vittoria Testa, Nadia Boido, Patrizia Montone, Simona Arrà, Elena Bonardi
I am unique and special: Education to sexuality as prevention from abuse. An experience in the area of Alba and Bra - This project is aimed to promote children’s emotive-sexual well-being. The purpose is to furnish the appropriate knowledge to the children’s caregivers in the nursery and primary school through a programme increasing the consciousness of one’s body and promoting personal security. The interactive method facilitated the dialogue among the actors involved in the programme, their awareness and the activation of protective responses in the context of the child’s life. The project was developed in 4 years and the results of this research refer to the second year of accomplishment. The project is that the trained teachers lead other groups of teachers, increasing the knowledge and use of the programme in the school activities, in order to promote a culture caring for the children’s needs.
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Gender and the psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse: A replication of Gold, Lucenko, Elhai, Swingle, and Sellers (1999)
Alison Lowit, Linda Treliving, Stephen Arcari, Kathleen Yates, Malcolm Kay, Philip Crockett, Michael Forrester, Ian Reid, Andrew Moskowitz
Gender and the psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse: A replication of Gold, Lucenko, Elhai, Swingle, and Sellers (1999) - While childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has been linked to a wide range of subsequent psychological problems in women, relatively few studies have included male CSA survivors; those that have typically have been limited by small sample sizes and/or failing to take into account population-based gender differences in symptom reporting. Gold et al. (1999) is one of the few exceptions. The aim of this study was to replicate, with a larger sample, the Gold et al. (1999) study by comparing levels of psychological distress and symptomatology reported by CSA survivors, adjusting for gender-specific population base rates. The Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R) was administered to 282 female and 51 male CSA survivors referred to a Scottish NHS psychotherapy service. SCL-90-R scores were analysed after adjusting for population norms. Male CSA survivors reported significantly higher levels of distress and more anxious and depressive symptoms than female CSA survivors, but only after adjusting for population base rates. Five out of the six significant subscale or summary scores were identical to those found in Gold et al. (1999).
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