PENCEGAHAN KEKERASAN SEKSUAL PADA ANAK MELALUI PENGAJARAN PERSONAL SAFETY SKILLS

Abstract

The increasingly widespread phenomenon of children sexual abuse
lead to intervention and prevention efforts in overcome the malicious effects of
sexual abuse against children. Various ideas have been triggered mental health
experts, in order to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse against children. One
of many efforts that praised by international community is teaching personal
safety skills to children, this method was popularized by Bagley and King in 2004.
Personal safety skills are a set of skills that need to be owned by children, so that
they can refrain themselves from perpetrators of sexual abuse and the situations
that allow sexual abuse, children are also taught to recognize the sensitive parts
of their body, how to maintain personal limbs of another person touches that
make them uncomfortable, and reported perpetrators of sexual abuse to trusted
adult. This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of sexual abuse against
children, and how the prevention of children sexual abuse can be done through
teaching personal safety skills. Children with personal safety skills have a strong
tendency to recognize, resist and report the situations that allow sexual abuse.