Increasing knowledge and skill in preventing Children Sexual Abuse
Indri Utami Sumaryanti (a), Fanni Putri Diantina (b), Rizka Hadian (b), Miki Amrilya Wardati(b)
faculty of Psychology
Universitas Islam Bandung
Abstract
The absence of Children Sexual Abuse (CSA) prevention in school and community in Indonesia, were encourage researcher to acknowledge the effectiveness of CSA prevention called Body safety training (BST). BST provided children the information and skill in preventing CSA by introduced them the safety of their body, acknowledge the situation that may lead to CSA and prepare them with assertiveness in reported to parent or teacher if they were in dangerous situation related to CSA. The BST delivered to children by Storytelling, modeling, rehearsal/role play, reinforcement and feedback methods. This research aimed to measure whether the methods were significant in increasing the knowledge and skill among children age 4-7 in preventing CSA. Experimental methodology approach were established using before after one group design. The research subjects were 72 children age 4-7 years old. The result shown the BST were significantly increasing children knowledge and skill in preventing CSA.
Keywords: Body Safety Training, Children Sexual Abuse, Experimental Methodology.
Topic: Psychology