Effect of Psycho-education on Creating Awareness of Child Abuse

Abstract

Child abuse can lead to long-lasting, even life-long, consequences and is a severe problem on a person, family and community level.Parenting is the most vital goal of child abuse prevention.In the present study, the investigators attempted to find out the effectiveness of Psycho-Education for the parents of early adolescents on awareness of child abuse. Experimental method was adopted and single group pretest posttest design selected for the present study. The sample consisted of 47 parents of early adolescent Students studying in selected school at Kanyakumari district. The investigator prepared a psycho-education module for the study and gave treatment for selected parents of early adolescents. For collection of data, conducted pretest and post test for early adolescents. The questions were constructed and validated bythe investigator and guide. The investigator used mean, standard deviation,t-testforanalyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that there is significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of psycho-education for the early adolescents on awareness of child abuse.