儿童福利专业人员为儿童性贩运受害者提供服务:随着时间的推移,知识和自我效能的变化
Caroline Harmon-Darrow1, Nikita Aggarwal2, Karen Burruss-Cousins3
1Rutgers University School of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Social work in public health
|December 19, 2025
概括
随着时间的推移,儿童福利工作者对儿童性贩运的知识增加了,但他们在吸引幸存者的自我有效性并没有得到改善. 培训需要更先进的内容和体验组件来建立信心.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
背景情况:
- 联邦立法资助儿童性贩运的预防,当地社会服务提供受害者支持.
- 儿童福利专业人员经常错误地识别和错误处理涉及性贩运青少年的案件,突出了对专门培训的迫切需要.
- 现有的研究表明,儿童福利工作者对儿童性贩运幸存者的知识和实践存在重大差距.
研究的目的:
- 评估儿童福利工作者关于与儿童性贩运幸存者接触的预培训知识和自我有效性的变化.
- 在儿童福利工作人员的连续队伍中,在五年内确定知识和自我效能的趋势.
主要方法:
- 在5年的培训课程中,对1061名儿童福利工作者进行了调查.
- 收集的数据测量了与儿童性贩运幸存者参与相关的预培训知识和自我效能.
- 对人口统计因素 (性别,种族,经验年数) 进行控制的相关性和回归分析.
主要成果:
- 在相继的工人队伍中,在时间的流逝和增加的培训前知识水平之间发现了显著的积极关联.
- 在为期五年的研究期间,没有观察到训练前自我有效性的显著增加.
- 获得的知识并没有转化为更好的信心或感知到有效地参与幸存者的能力.
结论:
- 虽然儿童福利工作者对儿童性贩运的知识日益增长,但他们的自我有效性需要有针对性的干预.
- 职业发展计划必须包含先进的内容和体验培训,以增强员工的信心和实践技能.
- 未来的培训应该专注于建立实践能力与理论知识一起,以更好地支持儿童性贩运幸存者.
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