PROTOCOLS OF SOCIAL WORKER INTERVIEWING CHILD - VICTIM OF SEXUALABUSE

Abstract

The position of social worker is central in process of managing cases with child sexual abuse, especially in the aspect of coordination and protection of children. Even when social worker is not the person who suspected of sexual abuse that has been experienced by a child, or is informed by other authorities, he still manages the case. In cases of part detection of abuse, where the child's word is accepted as prima facie, is evidence of abuse, a social worker, together with the police, initiates an investigation into what happened, the family circumstances and the child's relations and his immediate protection. This includes a formal interview, which is most appropriately managed by a social worker and a police officer. Often this will be the first and key contact will be made with child parents or guardians. This formal interview assesses the child's safety in the family, as well as the protection, counseling and treatment plan, which largely rely on information received from the social worker, within the formal interview.In practice we meet different protocols for interweaving sexually abused children, who have forensic approach.

Key words: practice, protection, forensic approach, treatment