The University of Fukui, the Osaka Prefectural Mental Health Center, Toyonaka City, and Hirakata City have jointly developed training and enlightenment materials to support caregivers in order to reduce child abuse.It explains that improper involvement and care for children, called maltreatment, may affect brain development and the onset of illness after adulthood, and local residents support child-rearing families to abuse children. It is said that it can be reduced.
According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the center of development was a research group led by Professor Tomomi Tomoda of the Center for Child and Mental Development, University of Fukui. Is also included.
As for educational materials for citizens, we are developing data that can be downloaded, printed, enlarged and posted on posters, and distributed to the general public as leaflets.
Through the Marutori Prevention Website that was opened this time, the University of Fukui and others promote awareness of the problems faced by caregivers before the child-rearing family falls into a critical situation, and promote dissemination activities in collaboration with the Japan Family Planning Association to promote local residents. Will broaden their understanding of "tomo-rearing," which supports child-rearing.
