Manual “MEETING INTERNATIONAL STANDARD OF COMPETENCY IN CHILD PROTECTION TRAINING” For Trainers Active in the Field of Sexual Assault is available HERE. Manual author is Dušica Popadić, Incest Trauma Center – Belgrade.
“Each time I start working with a group as a trainer, I ask myself what is my goal. For me, I know, it is understanding of sexual trauma in children. To learn from the group and to transfer know-how to trainees. How the child feels, how the child perceives themselves and the world of adults around, how the child behaves in order to survive this world. These are some of the questions I try, from my experience, to provide trainees with a clarity to best possible extent. In a majority of situations during training delivery, the first challenge is to influence attitude change in professionals, so to have gradually a number of them start questioning their prejudices and put a genuine effort to work in the best interest of the child sexual assault survivor.”
Ljiljana Bogavac, MD, Co-founder and President of the Incest Trauma Center – Belgrade,
Leader of the Counselors’ Team working with child and adult survivors of sexual assault and Trainer,
President of the European Women’s Network against Sexual Violence