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Prevention strategies
1. Prevention Strategies for
Childhood Emotional Abuse
• Prevention strategies should be targeted at three groups who
share the problem:
1. Parents and families
2. Society
3. Children
4. Early Child Care
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2. 1. Strategies targeted at parents and family
• Parents and other primary caregivers spend the most time
with their children.
• Prevention programs focusing services to parents and family.
– Building Positive Parenting Skills
– Organize parent support groups
– Encourage parent participating in child activities
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3. Building Positive Parenting Skills
• Decrease behaviors associated with child emotional
abuse
• Enhance parent-child relationship
• Improve communication between parent and
children
• Understand how to respond to children’s physical
and emotional needs
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4. Organize parent support groups
• Provide share others experiences in a supportive group
setting.
• Share information and resources
• Provide informal mutual support
• Opportunity to discuss parenting challenges
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5. Encourage parent participating in child
activities
• Can detect and prevent any situation that may cause
emotional abuse.
• Should inquire about abuse policies of the outside
organizations such as clubs or sport teams
• Should speak out if they notice something abusive
• Should make complain to relevant authorities.
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6. 2. Strategies targeted at society
• Create public awareness
• Promote inclusion
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7. Create public awareness
• Public awareness campaign and education help to
prevent abuse.
• Public will understand about
– child emotional abuse
– it’s consequences on child http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/20
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– different type of childhood emotional abuse
– and severity of child emotional abuse.
• Awareness help to take precautions to prevent
any type of abuse.
8. Promote inclusion
• A child who exhibits challenging behaviors may be more likely
to experience Childhood emotional Abuse
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9. 3. Strategies targeted at Children
• Share information about abuse with Children
• Teach children to identify abuse, respond to it and tell some
one responsible.
• Enhance children’s communication
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10. 4. Strategies targeted at Early Child Care
• Early childhood can help to minimize the Potential abuse
by
– working to support families
– providing referrals to appropriate helping services as
needed
• Child care centers should
– Have a policy for Childhood emotional Abuse
– Provide training for all staff
– Complete screening of employees
– Employee adequate staff
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