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Child Abuse
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Abuse is far more prevalent than Indian society has been willing to acknowledge.
It is a universal problem that occurs across all religious, ethnic, occupational
and socio-economic groups and is most often perpetrated by someone known to the child. Consequently besides also being denied and ignored, it has frequently
gone unrecognized and its victims (both children and perpetrators) untreated or
wrongly treated.
The
visible and invisible scars of past child abuse usually prevent many people from
achieving their optimal potential as the implications of the physical,
developmental, social and psychological effects of
Child Abuse, and their
associated economic cost are significant, usually resulting in trauma with
implications across the lifespan.
It is against this background,
that The Indian Council for Child Welfare, Tamil Nadu (ICCW – TN) and the Sri
Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC), a Deemed University,
have come together to organise the First National conference on Child Abuse for
Multi-disciplinary Professionals (COCAMP 2004) from February 11th to 13th 2004
at SRMC, Chennai.
 The theme of 'Issues of
Effective Interventions' seeks to bring together doctors, lawyers, social
workers as well as appropriate Government officials and other allied disciplines
like education and the media in a non-traditional symposium cum workshop style
conference format.
The main objectives of the
interaction are to sensitize and build capacities of people who come into
contact with abused children and to discuss and plan together effective
interventional and localized strategies to combat Child Abuse. Among the more
important outcomes envisioned are the developing of uniform and viable
guidelines and protocols, including the identification, assessment, treatment
and aftercare planning so that there is an overall healing of the child’s body
and spirit.
In
the photograph, Radha Venkataachalam, SRMC Registrar, is seen presenting a
memento to Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, B Subhashan Reddy. Also seen
are from left, Dr S Thanickachalam, Vice Chancellor, SRMC & RI and Dr M K C
Nair, President, Indian Academy of Paediatrics.
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