Safe schools for teens: preventing sexual abuse of urban poor teens, proof-of-concept study - Improving teachers' and students' knowledge, skills and attitudes

• Main Authors: Madrid, Bernadette J, Lopez, Gilda Dans, Dans, Leonila F, Fry, Deborah A, Duka-Pante, Francis Grace H, Muyot, Alberto T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: psychology; education; sexual abuse; dating violence; violence against children; adolescents; mindfulness; education intervention; prevention; Philippines; Psychology; School Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/280; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1279&context=psychology-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a difficult form of abuse to detect, with the peak age of reports from 13 to 15 years old. The recent revision of the Philippine school curriculum provided an opportunity to incorporate an educational intervention for prevention of CSA. This study aimed to improve the tea...