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Training professionals in Teslić
News Prof.dr.sc. Gordana Buljan Flander and Dragana Matešković, psychologist held a three-week workshop (from 2 February through 2 March 2012) titled "Sexual abuse of children – identification, interview and criteria for confirming allegations" in Teslić, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Published: 29.03.2012. | Read more >
Croatian professionals engaged in child protection visit Ireland
News A study visit to Belfast and Dublin from 05 to 10 March 2012 for Croatian representatives was organised within the cooperation between Croatian and Irish professionals engaged in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. The purpose of the visit was learning about the work of Irish institutions in cases of child sexual abuse.
Published: 28.03.2012. | Read more >
Director speaks in Strasbourg
News Gordana Buljan Flander, Assoc. Prof., Ph. D., Director of Child Protection Center of Zagreb, was invited to speak within the part of the seminar dealing with recognising the child's best interest in the development of mechanisms to stop sexual abuse.
Published: 17.02.2012. | Read more >
Seminar for Slovenian mental health professionals
News Director of the Child Protection Center of Zagreb prof.dr.sc. Gordana Buljan Flander and the diagnosing and treatment team leader dr. sc. Bruna Profaca held a two-day seminar in Maribor for mental health professionals of the Paedopsychiatric Outpatient. The seminar was held on 28 January and 11 February 2012.
Published: 13.02.2012. | Read more >
Center’s professionals held OSCE seminar in Montenegro
News Director of the Child Protection Center of Zagreb Gordana Buljan Flander, Assoc. Prof., Psychologist and Psychotherapist and Domagoj Štimac, M.D., Psychiatrist and sub specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry, held a three day seminar in Budva from 5 to 7 December 2011, under the title: "Court-Appointed Experts' Findings and Opinions".
Published: 01.02.2012. | Read more >
Celebrating the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse
News The World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse is celebrated on 19th November and it started in 2000 in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child celebration on 20 November.
Published: 15.11.2011. | Read more >
Council of Europe Regional Conference in Centre
The second day of the Conference was held at the Child Protection Center of Zagreb. The model of helping sexually abused children was shown through several presentations.
News Council of Europe Regional Conference "Stopping child sexual abuse - ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse" was held in Zagreb 27 and 28 October 2011.
Published: 31.10.2011. | Read more >
President Josipović visits the Center
English News The President of Croatia Ivo Josipović visited the Child Protection Center of Zagreb. After visiting our new premises and talking to our staff, the President emphasized that: "Childcare is one of the key duties of the society which we can see here being done to the full. I am happy that this institution is progressing well, that it has professionally been recognised at the international level and that it consolidates the work of the government and non-government sectors, the city and the state.
Published: 24.10.2011. | Read more >
Official opening of the Center in new premises
News "This is, in many ways, an experimental and unique center not only in Croatia, but in this part of Europe, as well", said Milan Bandić, the Mayor of Zagreb at the official opening of the Center's new premises, and thanked the whole team for the efforts we have been making.
Published: 17.10.2011. | Read more >
The City of Zagreb Award to our Director
News Zagreb City Day was celebrated in the City Hall on 31 May with an official meeting of Zagreb City Assembly where this year Zagreb City Prize winners, including our Director, Prof. dr sc. Gordana Buljan Flander, were awarded.
Published: 15.06.2011. | Read more >
Written by: Assoc. Prof., PH.D Gordana Buljan Flander
Marking the 50th anniversary since dr Kempe defined the battered child syndrome
Director's note This year is the 50th anniversary since American pediatrician dr. Henry Kempe and his collaborators published the paper about the battered child syndrome on 7 July 1962 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He defined the battered child syndrome as "the clinical condition in young children who have received serious physical abuse generally from a parent or foster parent".
Published: 30.04.2012. | Read more >
Children and pets
Family time Topics The majority of children want a pet and such a need should not be neglected. Habits and obligations of the family and the family conditions, as well as the natural needs of the chosen pet should be considered in the process of making a decision to take a pet.
Published: 01.05.2012. | Read more >
The Brave Phone
The Brave phone (“Hrabri telefon” in croatian) is an NGO which was registered in 1997, and the main aim of this NGO is protection of the children from abuse and neglect. Visit Brave Phone website.
A parent places a child in the middle when the child is asked to be a carrier of adult messages, asked to keep secrets, or asked to serve as a spy in the other household. When a parent trashes the other parent to the child, half of that child is being trashed also. Such issues take their toll on a child's self-esteem and sense of well-being. Any movement along the continuum from conflict to cooperation, no matter how small, is a move to benefit the child.
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