'A kindergarten teacher must have 100 eyes and 100 ears!': Kindergarten teachers' experiences coping with child sexual abuse and problematic sexual behavior

CONCLUSIONS: The fragmentation of the Israeli education system isolates kindergartens, and the lack of training and education for the teachers left them alone when contending with the CSA and PSB of their students. Nevertheless, the participants exhibited remarkable agency and resourcefulness, gaining the necessary knowledge and acting as knowledge agents within their communities.PMID:38447239 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106713

Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - March 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Laura I Sigad Noah Bar Gosen Limor Golan Efrat Lusky-Weisrose Jordan Shaibe Dafna Tener Tamara E Moshon-Cohen Daniel Roe Source Type: research