Child maltreatment: conceptualization and intervention

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Expository methods

Viewing and debate of filmed documents

Presentation and discussion of cases

Group work

Learning Outcomes

Teaching Goals:

- Identify the different types of child maltreatment and recognize their specificity

- Understand the relational dynamic of child maltreatment and its impact on brain development and pervasive consequences on child development

- Acknowledge the legal aspects and therapeutic challenges of residential care

 

Learning outcomes: at the end students should be able to:

- develop skills on assessment and diagnosis of child maltreatment situations

- Know prevention and intervention programs designed for victims of child maltreatment

- Conceptualize specific interventions in the dynamics of residential care, in order to make them more protective and therapeutic

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The concept of maltreated children

- Ecological and developmental perspective of the abused child

_ Types of child maltreatment and developmental impact: physical and psychological maltreatment; neglect; sexual abuse; exposure to domestic violence, munchausen syndrome by proxy

- Developmental Trauma disorder: the proposal of a new diagnostic category; the dynamics of the brain

- Assessment of developmental trauma: instruments and techniques

- Prevention and Intervention programs for the child and family (e.g., ARC model; theraplay)

- Developmental trauma in school context

- Methods and techniques of intervention with abused children: life story work and play therapy

- Residential care of abused children as a protection measure of children and youth at-risk: a) developmental impact of residential care, b) therapeutic care

Head Lecturer(s)

Luiza Isabel Gomes Freire Nobre Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 15.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

Bibliography

Anglin, J. (2002). Pain, normality and the struggle for conguence. NY: Routledge

Iwaniec, D. (2006). The emotionally abused and neglected child. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons

Nobre Lima, L. (2009). Estórias e Projectos de Vida de Adolescentes Institucionalizados. Dissertação de doutoramento não publicada, Universidade de Coimbra, FPCE

Myers, J. (2002). The APSAC handbook on child maltreatment. Thousand oaks: Sage

Steele, W. & Malchiodi, C. (2012). Trauma-informed practices with children and adolescents. New York: Routledge

Treisman, K. (2016). Working with relational and developmental trauma in children and adolescents. London: Routledge

 

White, J.; Koss, M. & Kazdin, A. (2011). Violence against women and children. Mapping the terrain. (vol.1). Washington, DC: APA

Ziegler, D. (2011). Traumatic experience and the brain. A handbook for understanding those traumatized as children. Gilbert, Arizona, USA: Acacia Publishing