Educational Research: Competences Developed in a Child Abuse Prevention Course

Abstract

This work is the result of a qualitative-quantitative educational research, of a blended course on prevention of child abuse. It was aimed at a heterogeneous group of professionals committed to the child and adolescent population. It took place for eight months long with monthly meetings. The teaching role was in charge of a pediatrician specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry facility. Various pedagogical strategies were implemented through the administration of conceptual, procedural and attitudinal content, which favored the acquisition of suitable competences for the objective proposed in the curriculum design. The evident interest in the resolution of child victimization, the difficulty for interdisciplinary teamwork and the dropout of the course by 75 % of the enrolled students stand out among the results observed during the diagnostic, formative and final evaluations. It can be concluded that this type of professional work shows the replication of identifying models of stereotyped gender roles culturally assigned to women in childcare, and that child victimization generates abandonment of the task due to resistance to suffering.