Curriculum Development around Parenting Strategies to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Program Collaboration Between Families Matter! and Global Dialogues

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• Alternative Title:
  J Child Sex Abus
• Personal Author:
  Miller, Kim S. ; Winskell, Kate ; Pruitt, Kaitlyn L. ; Saul, Janet
• Description:
  Despite widespread recognition of child sexual abuse as a serious problem in sub-Saharan Africa, few far-reaching programmatic interventions addressing child sexual abuse in this setting are currently available, and those interventions that do exist tend to focus on response rather than prevention. The Families Matter! Program is an evidence-based intervention for parents and caregivers of 9- to 12-year-olds in sub-Saharan African countries which promotes positive parenting practices and effective parent-child communication about sex-related issues. This article describes the enhancement of a new Families Matter! Program session on child sexual abuse, drawing on authentic narratives contributed by young people to the Global Dialogues from Africa youth scriptwriting competitions. Experiences are shared with a view to informing the development of interventions addressing child sexual abuse in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Subjects:
  Article Child Child Abuse, Sexual Child Sexual Abuse Curriculum Development Female Gender-based Violence HIV Prevention Humans Male Models, Organizational Parent-child Communication Parent-Child Relations Parenting Parents Preadolescence Primary Prevention Program Evaluation Risk Reduction Behavior Sexual Violence

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• Source:
  J Child Sex Abus. 24(8):839-852.
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2015.1088913
• Pubmed ID:
  26701277
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4762472
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; PEPFAR/United States
• Name as Subject:
  United States. President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• Place as Subject:
  Africa South of the Sahara
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c001795d1a7d7d5238e399edb3a717b6836170554705e5af252a758994938c721cd5db8c6ab3a81aba5c3dad0a3bea4e677dd0ab75747938e69ad9e183ea37dd
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