Child Protection: A Child Rights Approach for Schools

This chapter describes how child protection – protecting children from abuse and neglect and promoting their well-being – is conceptualized in a child-rights informed school psychology practice framework. The goal of such practice is to prevent violence and neglect before it occurs by valuing all children and creating school environments and communities that promote their full development. This approach focuses on promotion and prevention by raising consciousness about human and child rights, creating open dialogue, teaching skills (including how to protect oneself from abuse and speak up if it occurs), building stronger relationships, implementing and evaluating effective policy, increasing child participation, and embracing advocacy – all of which improve school climates. When maltreatment does occur, the goal is to respond in a way that both protects and supports the child and the family. The chapter describes effective child protection practice from an international perspective, recommends country and local goal setting for monitoring progress relevant to child protection, lists resources organized by student age and tier in a multitier framework from universal prevention (i.e., tier 1) to targeted intensive intervention (i.e., tier 3), presents a case study to illustrate aspects of the framework, and calls for school psychologists to participate in integrated developmental and intervention science and advocacy as part of global efforts focused on child rights and children’s well-being.

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The training manual is available as an online accompanying resource to this volume. See also Tulane University Child Rights Team (TURC, 2013) and Table 2 for information about the self-study version.

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1. Montefiore Medical Group, Bronx, NY, USA Christina M. Fiorvanti
2. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Christina M. Fiorvanti & Marla R. Brassard

1. Christina M. Fiorvanti