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Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model

The responsiveness of professionals working with children and families is of key importance for child maltreatment early identification. However, this might be undermined when multifaceted circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce interdisciplinary educational activities. Thanks to techno...

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Autores principales: Crocamo, Cristina, Bachi, Bianca, Cioni, Riccardo M., Schecke, Henrike, Nieminen, Irja, Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia, Woźniak-Prus, Małgorzata, Bartoli, Francesco, Riboldi, Ilaria, Appleton, Jane V., Bekaert, Sarah, Zlatkute, Giedre, Jouet, Emmanuelle, Viganò, Giovanni, Specka, Michael, Scherbaum, Norbert, Paavilainen, Eija, Baldacchino, Alexander, Carrà, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055708
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020885
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author Crocamo, Cristina
Bachi, Bianca
Cioni, Riccardo M.
Schecke, Henrike
Nieminen, Irja
Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia
Woźniak-Prus, Małgorzata
Bartoli, Francesco
Riboldi, Ilaria
Appleton, Jane V.
Bekaert, Sarah
Zlatkute, Giedre
Jouet, Emmanuelle
Viganò, Giovanni
Specka, Michael
Scherbaum, Norbert
Paavilainen, Eija
Baldacchino, Alexander
Carrà, Giuseppe
author_facet Crocamo, Cristina
Bachi, Bianca
Cioni, Riccardo M.
Schecke, Henrike
Nieminen, Irja
Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia
Woźniak-Prus, Małgorzata
Bartoli, Francesco
Riboldi, Ilaria
Appleton, Jane V.
Bekaert, Sarah
Zlatkute, Giedre
Jouet, Emmanuelle
Viganò, Giovanni
Specka, Michael
Scherbaum, Norbert
Paavilainen, Eija
Baldacchino, Alexander
Carrà, Giuseppe
author_sort Crocamo, Cristina
collection PubMed
description The responsiveness of professionals working with children and families is of key importance for child maltreatment early identification. However, this might be undermined when multifaceted circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce interdisciplinary educational activities. Thanks to technological developments, digital platforms seem promising in dealing with new challenges for professionals’ training. We examined a digital approach to child maltreatment training through the ERICA project experience (Stopping Child Maltreatment through Pan-European Multiprofessional Training Programme). ERICA has been piloted during the pandemic in seven European centers involving interconnected sectors of professionals working with children and families. The training consisted of interactive modules embedded in a digital learning framework. Different aspects (technology, interaction, and organization) were evaluated and trainers’ feedback on digital features was sought. Technical issues were the main barrier, however, these did not significantly disrupt the training. The trainers perceived reduced interaction between participants, although distinct factors were uncovered as potential favorable mediators. Based on participants’ subjective experiences and perspectives, digital learning frameworks for professionals working with children and families (such as the ERICA model nested in its indispensable adaptation to an e-learning mode) can represent a novel interactive approach to empower trainers and trainees to tackle child maltreatment during critical times such as a pandemic, and as an alternative to more traditional learning frameworks.
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spelling pubmed-87960232022-01-29 Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model Crocamo, Cristina Bachi, Bianca Cioni, Riccardo M. Schecke, Henrike Nieminen, Irja Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia Woźniak-Prus, Małgorzata Bartoli, Francesco Riboldi, Ilaria Appleton, Jane V. Bekaert, Sarah Zlatkute, Giedre Jouet, Emmanuelle Viganò, Giovanni Specka, Michael Scherbaum, Norbert Paavilainen, Eija Baldacchino, Alexander Carrà, Giuseppe Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The responsiveness of professionals working with children and families is of key importance for child maltreatment early identification. However, this might be undermined when multifaceted circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce interdisciplinary educational activities. Thanks to technological developments, digital platforms seem promising in dealing with new challenges for professionals’ training. We examined a digital approach to child maltreatment training through the ERICA project experience (Stopping Child Maltreatment through Pan-European Multiprofessional Training Programme). ERICA has been piloted during the pandemic in seven European centers involving interconnected sectors of professionals working with children and families. The training consisted of interactive modules embedded in a digital learning framework. Different aspects (technology, interaction, and organization) were evaluated and trainers’ feedback on digital features was sought. Technical issues were the main barrier, however, these did not significantly disrupt the training. The trainers perceived reduced interaction between participants, although distinct factors were uncovered as potential favorable mediators. Based on participants’ subjective experiences and perspectives, digital learning frameworks for professionals working with children and families (such as the ERICA model nested in its indispensable adaptation to an e-learning mode) can represent a novel interactive approach to empower trainers and trainees to tackle child maltreatment during critical times such as a pandemic, and as an alternative to more traditional learning frameworks. MDPI 2022-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8796023/ /pubmed/35055708 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020885 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Crocamo, Cristina
Bachi, Bianca
Cioni, Riccardo M.
Schecke, Henrike
Nieminen, Irja
Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia
Woźniak-Prus, Małgorzata
Bartoli, Francesco
Riboldi, Ilaria
Appleton, Jane V.
Bekaert, Sarah
Zlatkute, Giedre
Jouet, Emmanuelle
Viganò, Giovanni
Specka, Michael
Scherbaum, Norbert
Paavilainen, Eija
Baldacchino, Alexander
Carrà, Giuseppe
Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title_full Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title_fullStr Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title_full_unstemmed Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title_short Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the COVID-19 Era: A Pan-European Model
title_sort professionals’ digital training for child maltreatment prevention in the covid-19 era: a pan-european model
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055708
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020885
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