Topic: Violence and abuse

Survey of assessments for possible physical child abuse in Norwegian children’s wards

 
2008 This project has been completed 2010

Project Manager

Project Members

  • Lindboe, Anne

Main objective

To survey the scope of assessments to identify physical child abuse in Norwegian children’s wards and to acquire an overview of the type of cases and examination practice.

Method

Registration of measures in Norwegian children’s wards by anonymous forms throughout a period of one year.

Publications

Myhre, M., Lindboe, A., & Dyb, G. (2010). Oppdager sykehusene barnemishandling? En kartlegging av utredningspraksis [Do hospitals disclose child abuse? An assessment of evaluating practices.] Norwegian only. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress. (Rapport 2010).