The first of the Case Analyses series was held by the Üsküdar Üniversitesi Social Work Club. Social Worker Zuhal Koparan participated in the event as a speaker. Koparan informed the students about monitoring centers and case examples.
Prof. Dr. İsmail Barış, Head of the Social Work Department, also attended the seminar held at the Nermin Tarhan Conference Hall, Üsküdar Üniversitesi Central Campus.
“Any situation that harms a child is child abuse”
Social Worker Zuhal Koparan pointed out that child monitoring centers were established to work on abuse. Koparan stated; “These are all actions, knowingly or unknowingly carried out by an adult, society, or country, to an extent that endangers a child's health, life, and development. Recently, in this context, it has also begun to be defined as child ill-treatment. The purpose of this is that even witnessing too many definitions and words related to abuse is considered abuse, so the definition of ill-treatment is also preferred to avoid negatively affecting society's mental health in this way. However, when the definition of ill-treatment is made, we do not always think of sexual abuse. It also includes economic abuse, education-related issues, and neglect. This is a very general definition. Any situation that harms a child is child abuse. Sexual abuse can occur with contact or without contact. It can be verbal or non-verbal. Regardless of how and with what intention it occurs, the presence of a sexual purpose leads us to child sexual abuse. For this purpose, child monitoring centers are centers established to work on abuse. Child Monitoring Centers are institutions established to prevent what we call secondary traumatization, which arises from each institution such as law enforcement, judicial authorities, and health organizations evaluating victimized children separately. Child Monitoring Centers were established for the first time in Turkey in 2012 under the Ministry of Health.”
At the end of the seminar, a certificate of participation was presented to Zuhal Koparan by the Social Work Club.
The event concluded with answering students' questions and a group photo session.