Child Protection. Freda Briggs

      Child Protection: the essential guide for teachers and other professionals whose work involves children Professor Freda Briggs

      First Published 2012 by JoJo Publishing

      This edition published 2018 by Woodslane Press

      © Freda Briggs

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      About the Author

      Professor Freda Briggs AO, formerly a teacher and child protection police officer and social worker, is Emeritus Professor of Child Development at the University of South Australia, lecturing and researching in child and family-related issues.

      She is also the author of: From Victim to Offender; Why my Child?; Developing Personal Safety Skills in Children with Disabilities; Keep Children Safe; and Child Sexual Abuse: Confronting the Problem. In addition she is first author of Teaching Children to Protect Themselves; The Early Years of School: Teaching and Learning; Teaching in the First Three Years of School; Children and Families: Australian Perspectives; and Smart Parenting for Safer Kids and Child Protection – A guide for teachers and childcare professionals. Russell Hawkins, Professor of Psychology at James Cook University, Queensland, is co-researcher and author of the chapter, “Emotional Abuse”.

      Professor Briggs received the Order of Australia (2005), the Inaugural Australian Humanitarian Award, the Centenary Medal, a Rotary International Award and numerous other awards and was Senior Australian of the Year (2000) for her pioneering work in protecting children.

      Acknowledgements

      A comprehensive book of this complexity could not have been written without the assistance of many experts.

      For critiquing the book in its entirety, I express my gratitude to Dr Kerryann Walsh, senior lecturer in the School of Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology. Thanks also go to Professor Nigel Parton, the University of Huddersfield, UK, and Professor Chris Goddard, Director of the Child Abuse Research Centre, Monash University for assistance with the chapter on the politics of child abuse.

      Thanks go to:

       Jonathan Humphrey on the Family Court

       Dr Annie Cossins, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and founder and Convenor of the National Child Sexual Assault Reform Committee – a high-level committee comprising all Directors of Public Prosecution, various District Court judges, academics, and Children`s Commissioners (amongst others) which met annually for 8 years – and an expert on children in the criminal court

       Professor Caroline Taylor, Foundation Chair in Social Justice and Head of the Social Justice Research Centre at Edith Cowan University

       For their major contributions to Chapter 3 on the effects of trauma on brain development and learning, thanks are due to distinguished Professor Laura Berk (State University of Illinois), Dr Victoria Whitington (University of South Australia) and Dr Bruce Perry, Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy at Houston

       For critiquing chapters on child sex abuse and protection programmes, Owen Sanders, long-time manager of New Zealand Police Youth Education Services responsible for the design and support of the national child protection curriculum in schools and Gaye Brimacombe, Policy Advisor: Child Protection, SA Department of Education and Children’s Services

      Thank you also to:

       Professor Kim Oates, University of Sydney and former CEO of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, founder of the Child Development and Child Protection Units and holder of the inaugural Douglas Burrows Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health

       Dr Bev Orr, Board Member of Families Australia for her expertise on children in out-of-home care

       Chief Superintendent Chris Gould, Kid-Safe, Avon and Somerset Police, UK on safer student travel

       Dr Ian Lambie University of Auckland for his expertise on children and young people who exhibit problematic sexual behaviours

       Father Chris Riley and Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain (RMIT University) for assistance with the chapter on child homelessness

      Photographs of burns on children and physical abuse were provided by Californian burn expert Phylip Peltier. Images of oral damage and diagrams were kindly donated by the Child Protection and Dental Team Project (COPDEND 2006) funded by the Department of Health, UK from Harris J, Sidebotham P, Welbury R et al. Child protection and the dental team: an introduction to safeguarding children in dental practice. COPDEND: Sheffield, 2006 and using Hobbs CJ, Wynne JM. Physical signs of child abuse. A colour atlas. 2nd ed. London: WB Saunders, 2001 used with the permission of Elsevier Books. Published in http://www.cpdt.org.uk/tab02/2_4_1_0.htm

      Table of Contents

       About the Author

       Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1: An introduction to child protection

      Chapter 2: Politics involved in child protection

      Chapter 3: Child protection and the role of educators, child carers, school counsellors and others in child-related services

      Chapter 4: Emotional abuse and emotional neglect

      Chapter 5: Children who live with family violence

      Chapter 6: The physical abuse of children

      Chapter 7: Neglected children

      Chapter 8: What you need to know about child sexual abuse

      Chapter 9: What you need to know about child sex offenders

      Chapter: 10 Children who engage in inappropriate sexual behaviours

      Chapter 11: Why child protection programmes are needed in schools and early childhood centres

      Chapter 12: Homeless children and young people

      Chapter 13: Safe student exchanges

      Chapter 14: Abused children and the courts

       Index

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