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VečernjiTV: “We need to help families to be better parents, and that of their children do not create a minor, and later adult perpetrators”

3. September 2020.
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Director of the Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center, professor Gordana Buljan Flander, PhD, gave an interview to journalist Lana Kovačević for VečernjiTV about violence among children and youth:

Večernji list: “How the morbid pedophile chain in Istria fell: The technology with which they operated shocked the police”

31. July 2020.
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Večernji list published a topic on the occasion of the arrest of several tourists who photographed naked children on beaches hidden by cameras, for committing the criminal offense of exploiting children for pornography on July 27, 2020. The expert interlocutor on behalf of the Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center was psychologist Mia Roje Đapić :

RTL: “Stop paedophilia! “Potraga” investigates how paedophiles stalking children and who the people who expose them”

3. June 2020.
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In the RTL show Potraga (Search) broadcasted on June 2, 2020, journalist Sanja Četipović presented the civic initiative Stop Pedofilija [Stop paedophilia], and about the stalking of minors on the Internet,…Read more →

Delayed responses to stress and transgenerational transmission of trauma: Possible psychiatric outcomes of childhood abuse

29. March 2020.
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The following is the third part of the article "Some specifics of global pandemic stress and natural disasters" published on March 24, 2020. The second part is published on March…Read more →

19. March 2020.
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According to a survey of the prevalence of child abuse and neglect conducted in 2006 (Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center and Brave Phone), 16.5% of children experienced emotional abuse. However, it is very difficult to estimate the exact prevalence of emotional abuse in the population since it involves a wide range of behaviors and there is no clear definition of it. In this text we address emotional abuse in the family, although it may occur within any other relevant relationship.

Lecture on childhood trauma in Koprivnica

9. March 2020.
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On the occasion of World Social Work Day in Koprivnica, at the City Hall, prof. Gordana Buljan Flander, PhD, Director of the Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center, held a…Read more →

How to talk to a young person about dating violence

2. January 2020.
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The adolescent period is a delicate period in life in which young people are finally separated from their primary family, a period when they cease to be children and are…Read more →

11. October 2016.
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There is a number of definitions of child abuse and neglect (medical, psychological, social-protective, legal). Defining the meaning of child abuse and neglect, it is important to take into account two assessments: parental/carer behaviours on one, and impact on the child on the other hand. Child abuse includes everything individuals, institutions or processes do or fail to do, which directly or indirectly harms the child or imposes risks for his/her healthy and safe development into adulthood.