Interdisciplinary help for child victims of crime, abuse and neglect

No. 23/2008 of the periodical "Abused Child. Theory, Research and Practice" published by the Nobody's Children Foundation was dedicated to the problem of systemic help for abused children, which is also the leading theme for the current year's Childhood without Abuse Project activities.

Working in interdisciplinary teams proved to be the most effective way of helping abused child and it's family. This periodical gives theoretical background of systemic work on it's different levels. It also contains articles focusing on Polish, as well as foreign solutions in the field of systemic help for children.

Table of Contents:

1. Collaboration, integration and change in children's services: Critical issues and key ingredients, Jan Horwath, Tony Morrison
2. Children living in poverty - Abused children, Wielisława Warzywoda - Kruszyńska
3. Legal ban on corporal punishment of children: European states' regulations and current legal status in Poland, Violetta Konarska - Wrzosek
4. Preventing sexual abuse in the family, Kevin Browne
5. Child abuse: Attitudes and experiences of schools staff, Monika Czyżewska
6. Child and family Care System: From model to implementation, Leszek Drozdowski
7. Systemic assistance for abused children: U.S. experience, Monika Sajkowska
8. The Warsaw Programme for Reducing Violence in the Family, Renata Durda
9. The Praga Child Protection Network: An interdisciplinary team for reducing child abuse in Praga Południe, one of Warsaw districts, Beata Kita
10. Princliples of storing and sharing psychological documentation for the Rules ad Regulations of Jan Bogdanowicz Children's Hospital, Mariola Skowrońska, Krystyna Darżynkiewicz, Ewa Świątkowska, Małgorzata Steinborn, Katarzyna Spiridonow, Sylwia Kuczyńska, Monika Misiec, Monika Przybysz, Joanna Otowska

The quarterly magazine "Abused Child. Theory, Research and Practice" has an interdisciplinary character and aims to broaden knowledge about different aspects of child abuse. In the periodical the most relevant theoretical concepts, empirical data and information about innovative activities of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventing character are presented. The goal of the periodical is to establish form of sharing experiences concerning combating child abuse, sharing good practice and information about important events like conferences, congresses, training and publications in this field. The quarterly magazine is published in Polish. Abstracts of the articles in Polish are available on www.dzieckokrzywdzone.pl, the Nobody's Children Foundation website devoted to the problem of child abuse.