This set of publications disseminates tools for detecting child-victims of abuse and neglect, and is based on the guidebook "Detecting Children at Risk" by Nirit Lavi Kutzik, published by Ashalim in 2000.
Detecting Child-Victims of Abuse and Neglect - Guidebook for Ultra-orthodox Community
Adaptation of original guidebook to the religious sensitivities of the Ultra-orthodox population in Israel.
Based on "Detecting Children at Risk"
by Nirit Lavi Kutzik (2000)
Edited by Gita Loyfer, Shmuel Goldstein
Inter-Cultural Introductions
These introductions provide a cultural and/or religious framework for professionals in contact with children and families.
§ Ultra-Orthodox Community - "Judaism on issues of child abuse".
By Rabbi Doron Zion Agasi
§ Ethiopian-Israeli Community.
By Malka Shabtai, Mamoya Zara
§ Arab-Israeli Society.
By Dr. Khawla Abu-Baker
Detecting Child-Victims of Abuse and Neglect - Program for Internalization
§ Course program and guidebook for course facilitators of professional in-service training courses on child abuse and neglect.
By Shmuel Goldstein
§ Course program and guidebook for course facilitators on child abuse and neglect, adapted for Hebrew University of Jerusalem's early childhood Etgar program.
By Shmuel Goldstein and Malka Weinstein
Ashalim and the Ministry of Health have published a course-book for use in training health care staff to detect child abuse and neglect. The course-book, titled "To Speak the Silence", follows an earlier Ashalim publication of a book by the same name for community professionals. The course-book outlines the multi-disciplinary nature of handling child abuse and neglect, and provides specific tools and clinical guidelines for health care workers who regularly encounter children and youth. Community doctors, nurses and social workers from all the health funds countrywide who have completed a joint Ministry of Health and Ashalim training course will go back to their local health funds and will use the course-book as they train their colleagues.
A Home with a Window: Emergency Centers for Children at Risk and Their Families – Second Edition.
Edited by Shlomith Cohen
A Home with a Window is the product of work with children at risk and their parents, and describes work methods that have developed over the years at Emergency Centers. Through case studies, it presents a complex model of multi-system diagnostic-treatment work that operates in close connection with the community. Throughout the book, the reader is exposed to emotional experiences of children, their parents and their therapists, as well as to the professional and human dilemmas inherent in work that centers on finding better opportunities for children who have reached a crisis point.
Nutrition and Families
By Bilha Bachrach, Hila Haim-Zweig, Adina Friedman, Yael Chopin
This booklet offers a holistic approach for understanding the situation of individuals and families, and bridges knowledge from the disciplines of social work and nutrition. The booklet presents intervention guidelines, based on this approach, which were developed and implemented through the Body and Soul program – a joint effort of Ashalim and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Schools of Social Work and Nutrition.
The Psychosocial Approach: A Case Study in School Intervention and in Teacher Training
This article describes an innovative model for effective educational intervention with students in processes of risk and dropout. In the first section, Mor describes the development of this approach through ongoing dialogue with the field; in the second, Bar Shalom presents data relating to the application of this method in the framework of teacher training in the special education track at David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem. The psychosocial approach can be seen as belonging to an emerging trend of school change in Israel in the context of at risk youth.
