Annual of social work, Vol. 19 No. 2, 2012.
Review article
GENDER SENSITIVITY IN RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMMING FOR GIRLS WITH BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
Ivana Jeđud Borić
; Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with the concept of gender sensitivity in risk and needs assessment and intervention planning for girls with behavior problems. Girls with behavior problems are often described in literature through the syntagm »great needs, low risk« and they are often a neglected group due to the fact that behavioral problems are not numerous and they do not represent a significant danger for the society. The majority of modern assessment instruments is based on and validated in the research conducted almost exclusively on the male population and it does not take into account the knowledge on specific needs and risks related to the female population, especially in terms of variables such as trauma, victimization, violence, substance abuse, sexual and physical abuse. In addition, there are numerous criticisms related to existing interventions aimed at girls, in the sense of a lack of differentiated programs taking into account the specificities of the girl population. In that context, »full circle« interventions are advocated, from prevention and early interventions to post-treatment with simultaneous amendments to laws and rulebooks with the aim of increasing the level of gender sensitivity.Based on the prevailing premiseof girls being neglected from the research, theoretical and intervention perspective (within the care system for children and young people and the juvenile justice system), the aim of the article is to present the need to create assessment instruments which are gender sensitive as well intervention programming aimed specifically at girls.
Keywords
gender sensitivity; risk and needs assessment instruments; intervention planning; girls with behavior problems
Hrčak ID:
95517
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Publication date:
18.1.2013.
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