Specialized children’s picture book as a strategy of sexual abuse prevention

• Autor(a) principal: Soma, Sheila Maria Prado
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Williams, Lúcia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/10542
• topic: child sexual abuse;; storytelling;; prevention;; self-protective skills;; child books; abuso sexual infantil;; cuenta de historias;; prevención;; habilidades autoprotegentes;; libros infantiles; abuso sexual infantil;; contação de histórias;; prevenção;; habilidades autoprotetivas;; livros infantis

This study evaluated whether storytelling based on a children’s picture book on sexual abuse prevention is an effective way to acquire self-protection skills in 33 children of a Brazilian public school. The instruments included: the adapted Portuguese version of the What If Situation Test (WIST III-R), which was used to assess the acquisition of three self-protective skills (recognize, resist, and report); the Observational Protocol of Practical Activities with Parents and Children; qualitative analysis of children’s filmed verbalizations. Participants were divided into three groups in the experimental design: story-telling with a child sexual abuse prevention book, story-telling with a nonsexual abuse prevention book, and a Control Group without intervention. Children who participated in the child sexual abuse book intervention had a statistically significant increase in the ability to report the abuse to a trusted person.