Child sexual abuse, according to the World Health Organization, has become a matter of public health, requiring interventions in the different spheres of society. Although alarming information, there are still few reports ...

This thesis involves a compilation of two manuscripts, presenting a systematic review of evaluation studies involving the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program and a pilot study evaluating the ACT Program in Brazil. Such program ...

This dissertation is a compendium of four scientific papers. Each paper describes a stage of the study, with the final goal of evaluating the effectiveness of different materials to increase parents knowledge on abusive ...

This Master’s thesis is a compendium of three scientific texts. Each one describes different steps of the study in order to contribute to the validation of the NICHD protocol in Brazilian context. The first article ...

Domestic violence against children represents an important issue in public health due to its higher taxes of morbidity and mortality. At the same time it constitutes a social and professional challenge. Familiar violence ...

Studies show that when dealing with cases of abuse, health professionals have difficulties in identification and reporting. These difficulties are related to a gap on this topic on their professional training, the reproduction ...

Many studies have shown that children exposed to domestic violence are at risk of presenting behavior problems and other adjustment problems at school. Nevertheless, few studies have assessed the relationship between ...

This study aimed to investigate the process of compulsory notification of violence in childhood and adolescence in the city of Santa Maria/RS, through articulation of epidemiological data with the experiences of professionals ...

Primary prevention aims to identify, remove or reduce the incidence of risk factors that produce conditions of adversity. These conditions enable the link with Special Education required, since researches on strategies ...

The objective of this research was assess the effects of an early intervention program to low-income families living in a small city of São Paulo, to prevent the development of problems behavior in pre-school children, by ...