[Updated during the day]. The Norwegian blogger Sigrun wrote about the biggest and most important conference on child abuse that has ever been held in Norway. From the newspaper, Tønsbergs Blad:
390 people in occupational groups (???) working with the youngest of us got the brutal reality presented for them during an eight hour long day. For many it was a tough awakening. Many times the audience was exhorted to look at the horror awakening pictures that rolled over the big viewing screen (they had to avert their gazes from what they saw? Didn't manage to look at it?).
When two doctors for forensic medicine showed pictures of abused children's corpses with big head and fracture damages one person fainted. A physician were sent for and they had to make a break in the program (also read here about Forensic medicine).
Many occupational groups need a massive awakening according to the Norwegian Children's Ombudsman Reidar Hjermann (also see here about him, those links are in Norwegian though). Not least family doctors need this.
At the same time he eulogized the big awakening among Norwegian dentists. They can capture children who have problems with having things in their mouth.
A dentist, specialist on pedodontics, came with powerful descriptions of how children have been victims for oral sexual abuse.
She said that 2006 35,000 Norwegian children didn't meet up to their appointments with their dentists, and only 7,000 gave an explanation.
“It's so important that we care!”was her clear message.
“Do we dare to see when we see?”was the, or a, background motto to this day.
Sigrun writes:
“It is this method occupational people ought to become exposed to too I have thought for many years.
I said to a psychologist I visited [as a client], that the ones treating [my addition and interpretation: psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists etc.] ought to become tied up to the chair and forced to look at child abuse on film.
Then they would maybe stop offending patients with
'It's not about how you have it, but about how you take it','All parents make their best','It's never too late to get a good childhood','It's only the vulnerable children that don't stand violence'etc. [blaming the victim].”
How well said!!!
And maybe they would start to listen to clients telling them about abuse that never was visible too (humiliation, neglect, emotional and psychological abuse etc.)!? Listen to clients when they maybe after a long time start to recall and/or dare to tell about things.
Also read the posting "Here you have a stone" (more about the speech the Swedish author of childbooks Astrid Lindgren held when she received the German Bookseller's Prize 1978).
Addition at lunch-time:
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