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Childhood should be free of violence and victims of childhood maltreatment should be entitled to participate as expert informants in research about these experiences. Placing children and adult survivors at the heart of research efforts on child maltreatment is critical to effective response and prevention measures in fighting this form of violence.
Embedded in the European context, Participatory Research on Child Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors presents a mosaic of contexts, theories, and methods relating to children's and adult survivors' participation in research about their adverse experiences. Contributors demonstrate how research can mobilize children and adult survivors to become agents in constructing and disseminating reliable, evidence-based knowledge about child maltreatment.
Enriching ongoing debates about ethical concerns and challenges of participatory research in the field of child maltreatment, this book highlights the advantages that participation as a human right and as a valued endeavour of scientific knowledge accumulation can bring to the community of researchers and helping professionals.
The authors of this book are members of a designated working group of the pan-European network, Euro-CAN on Multisectoral Responses to Child Abuse and Neglect in Europe, supported by the European Cooperation on Science Technology (COST Action 19106). and promote children's participation in research on violence that affects their families, institutions and communities.
About the Author: Maria Roth is Emeritus Professor in the Social Work Department of Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Ravit Alfandari is Lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel.
Gemma Crous is a Serra Húnter Lecturer at the Department of Methods of Research and Diagnosis in Education of the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
