Child Sexual Abuse - A Collaborative Approach to Prevention and Treatment - Personal Safety - Curriculum for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (High School)

• NCJ Number: 95504
• Author(s): M Olson; B S Sykes
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 198 pages
• Sale Source: UMI Dissertation Services
• Publication Type: Thesis/Dissertation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: One part of a project submitted to Seattle University for doctorate.

Annotation

This guide to the fifth level -- high school -- of a curriculum for prevention of child sexual abuse contains background material for teachers, resource lists, and a detailed outline of the 5-day course.

Abstract

The curriculum's objectives are to give students the knowledge and ability to identify sexual abuse, a sense of their right to control their bodies in exchanges of physical affection, assertive techniques for telling someone not to touch them, confidence that their family and community support system will believe them, ability to select a mate who will not abuse their children, and knowledge of ways to ensure their children's personal safety. Charts provide overviews of all levels of the curriculum. To help professionals teach the curriculum, a background information section discusses using language that children understand, statistics on child sexual abuse, differences between rape and other sexual abuse, indicators of sexual abuse, reporting, the legal process, and helping the sexually abused child. Resource telephone numbers for reporting abuse in Washington State are presented, along with lists of films, pamphlets, and books for children and adults. All levels of the curriculum consist of four units: personal safety, appropriate and inappropriate touching, assertiveness techniques, and support systems. Charts detail objectives for each of the five lessons, resource materials, and activities that promote these objectives. The high school curriculum addresses statistics and myths on child sexual abuse, incest, characteristics of victims and offenders, legal processes, reporting abuse, stranger and acquaintance rape, and decisionmaking in potentially hazardous situations. Pretests and posttests, a glossary, a student evaluation form, and an annotated bibliography of about 35 references are provided. The appendixes contain the Tacoma School District's reporting policy and forms, excerpts from Washington State law, curriculum educational materials sent to parents, and a teacher's evaluation form.