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[The battered, abused and neglected child and the Crisis Center for Children]
1Dĕtské krizové centrum, Praha.
Insights
Child abuse and neglect are increasing, necessitating better recognition, treatment, and prevention strategies. A specialized, interdisciplinary crisis center offers a model for effective child protection services.
Area of Science:
- Child Psychology
- Social Work
- Pediatrics
Context:
- Increasing incidence and severity of child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment.
- Existing child care and protection systems are inadequately prepared to address this complex issue.
- Growing societal attention to the battered child syndrome.
Purpose:
- To explore effective strategies for recognizing, treating, and preventing child abuse and neglect.
- To propose the establishment of specialized, interdisciplinary departments for comprehensive child protection.
- To present a model crisis center for abused children and their families.
Summary:
- The syndrome of the battered, abused, and neglected child is increasingly prevalent.
- An interdisciplinary approach through specialized departments is crucial for effective intervention.
- A crisis center in Prague 4-Michle serves as a model for developing such institutions.
Impact:
- Highlights the need for improved child protection frameworks.
- Demonstrates the effectiveness of a specialized, interdisciplinary approach to child maltreatment.
- Provides a scalable model for national child care and protection networks.
Abstract:
The syndrome of the battered, abused and neglected child is becoming manifest also in our country with increasing frequency and severity, not only because much more attention is paid to it than ever before. Our system of child care and protection is, however, by far not yet ready to resolve this serious problem in the life of children, families and society as a whole and therefore ways and means must be sought how to face it, how to recognize it, treat it and in particular how to prevent it. One of the important means how to tackle this dangerous social phenomenon is a specialized department concerned in a comprehensive way on an interdisciplinary basis, with skilled and effective clinical work with every single abused child and its family in close association with all disciplines and institutions interested in the problem as well as by conceptual work, research, training and expert opinions etc. The crisis centre for children in Prague 4-Michle wants to serve with its experience and findings as a model workplace for building special institutions within the framework of a rational, interdisciplinary network of child care and protection in this country. The results of its two-year work and the great interest in it on the part of many localities and regions justify its efforts.