How can school help victims of violence? Evaluation of online training for European schools' staff from a multidisciplinary approach.

ABSTRACT: The interventions used to prevent or treat violence against children, particularly sexual abuse, tend to only consider the target audience as their main source of data. We tested the effect of an online training for school staff members in Europe through three studies. In Study I, we interviewed 5 adult women (Mage = 49.2, SD = 5.81) who were victims of sexual abuse during childhood to assess what school could have done during that time to protect them. Through Study II, we collected data on 66 school staff members to assess feasibility (based on quantitative indicators) and to explore the changes they would make to their everyday practice due to the training course (using qualitative analysis). In Study III, we used network analysis to assess to what extent the actions described by school

SUBMITTER: Greco AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377607 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature