Programming for Preventing Sexual Abuse and Abduction: What Does It Mean When It Works?

• NCJ Number: 109575
• Journal: Child Welfare Volume: 67 Issue: 1 Dated: (January/February 1988) Pages: 69-78
• Author(s): S K Kraizer; G E Fryer; M Miller
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Many kinds of educational programs and other approaches to teaching children about the dangers of sexual abuse and abduction by strangers can have the 'side effect' of creating new anxieties in the children.

Abstract

The program described in this article is effective without introducing negative, anxiety-producing stories, examples, and other warnings. (Publisher abstract)