Freda Briggs
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Australian child protection expert
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Freda Briggs's Degrees
- PhD Child Protection University of South Australia
- Masters Education University of South Australia
- Bachelors Education University of South Australia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Freda Briggs was an Australian academic, author and child protection advocate. In 2000, she was named Senior Australian of the Year for her pioneering work in child protection. Early life and education Briggs was born Freda Akeroyd on 1 December 1930 in Huddersfield, England. She has one brother, nine years her junior. She attended Deighton Council School and Royds Hall School.
Freda Briggs's Published Works
Published Works
- A comparison of the childhood experiences of convicted male child molesters and men who were sexually abused in childhood and claimed to be nonoffenders. (1996) (111)
- Follow-up data on the effectiveness of New Zealand's national school based child protection program. (1994) (62)
- Safety issues in the lives of children with learning disabilities (2006) (44)
- Children Talk about their Early Experiences at School (2003) (37)
- Child protection programms: Can they protect young children? (1991) (28)
- Follow up study of children of 5‐8 years using child protection programmes in Australia and New Zealand (1994) (26)
- Locating child protection in preservice teacher education (2011) (25)
- South Australian Parents want Child Protection Programs to be offered in Schools and PreSchools (1988) (22)
- Cries unheard: The story of Mary Bell , Gitta Sereny, Macmillan – Papermac, London 1998. (2000) (22)
- Protecting boys from the risk of sexual abuse (1995) (19)
- Violence, threats and intimidation in the lives of professionals whose work involves children (2004) (17)
- Child Protection (2020) (15)
- Personal safety issues in the lives of children with learning disabilities (2005) (14)
- On the move again?, What works in creating stability for looked after children, Sonia Jackson and Nigel Thomas, Bamardos, llford, Essex, 1999 (1999) (14)
- Developments in Australian laws requiring the reporting of suspected child sexual abuse (2009) (14)
- Low Socio-Economic Status Children are Disadvantaged in the Provision of School-Based Child Protection Programmes (1996) (13)
- When your child has been molested: A parent's guide to healing and recovery—Putting the pieces together (1989) (12)
- Choosing between child protection programmes (1994) (12)
- Pleasing Yourself and Working for the Teacher: Children's Perceptions of School (2001) (12)
- Developing Personal Safety Skills in Children with Disabilities (1995) (11)
- Child sexual abuse in early-childhood care and education settings (2014) (11)
- From victim to offender (1995) (9)
- A comparison of the early childhood and family experiences of incarcerated, convicted male child molesters and men who were sexually abused in childhood and have no convictions for sexual offences against children: (621792012-001) (1994) (9)
- Significance of Children's Drawings in Cases of Sexual Abuse. (1989) (9)
- Children's Perceptions of Personal Safety Issues and their Vulnerability to Molestation (1993) (8)
- The Institutionalised Abuse of Children in Australia: Past and Present (1997) (6)
- Children and families : Australian perspectives (1994) (6)
- Violence, threats and intimidation in the lives of professionals whose work involves child protection (2003) (6)
- Early childhood experiences of men sexually abused as children (1995) (4)
- What Singaporean teachers and social workers say about child abuse: facts versus myths (2002) (4)
- Child sexual abuse and the legal system (2007) (3)
- Partnerships between parents and teachers in child protection (1999) (3)
- Why My Child?: Supporting the Families of Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (1993) (3)
- Children's Views of Their World (2007) (3)
- Foster Care from a Historical Perspective (2015) (2)
- Keeping kids safe, a child sexual abuse prevention manual: Pnina Tobin, Susan Levinson Farley. Learning Publications, Inc., Holmes Beach, FL, 1990. 154 pp. $19.95 (1994) (1)
- From Victim to Offender: How child sexual abuse victims become offenders (2020) (1)
- The challenge of protecting boys from sexual abuse (2008) (1)
- How valuable are evaluations?: The need for evaluation of community-based child and family services (2001) (1)
- Can Family Law Protect Young Children? (2012) (1)
- Emotional Abuse (2020) (0)
- Understanding Our Feelings about Child Maltreatment (2020) (0)
- Emotional Abuse in Care and Education Settings (2020) (0)
- The Need for Personal Safety Education Programmes (2020) (0)
- Dare to make change (1999) (0)
- Social Worker and Counsellor Perceptions of Singapore's Domestic Violence Prevention System (2001) (0)
- The greatest taboo of all (2020) (0)
- Safeguarding Children and Schools, Mary Baginsky (ed.), London and Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008, pp. 208, ISBN 9781843105145, £19.99/US$39.95 (2007) (0)
- Protecting Children with Disabilities 1 (2020) (0)
- One law for the rich and another for the rest of us (2020) (0)
- Book reviewsPreventing sexual abuse, activities and strategies for those working with children and adolescents: Carol A. Plummer, Learning Publications, Inc., Holmes Beach, FL, 1984. 166 pp. $19.95 (1994) (0)
- Children’s Revelations of Sexual Abuse (2020) (0)
- Understanding the Medical Diagnosis of Child Maltreatment: A Guide for Non-Medical Professionals, Charmaine R. Brittain (ed.), New York, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 268, ISBN 978 0 19 517217 1, £42.00 hbk (2005) (0)
- Book reviewWhen your child has been molested: A parent's guide to healing and recovery—Putting the pieces together: by Kathryn B. Hagans and Joyce Case. D.C. Heath, Lexington Books, Lexington, MA. 1988. 159 pp. Hardback, US$18.95 (1989) (0)
- Thresher Presidential Ballot Is Postponed (0)
- Unholy orders (2020) (0)
- Child Sexual Abuse (2020) (0)
- Children in the ‘care and protection’ of the State (2020) (0)
- Child prostitution and the law (2020) (0)
- Child Protection is Everybody’s Business (2020) (0)
- In search of love (2020) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS Children and families: Australian Perspectives (2015) (0)
- Board Bulletin: Commentary from members of Children Australia Editorial Board (2008) (0)
- Book review of "Child Abuse and Child Protection" by C. Goddard. Melbourne, Churchill Livingstone, 1996. ISBN:978-0-443-05431-0 (1997) (0)
- Parental Participation: The Play Centre Movement in New Zealand. (1980) (0)
- Institutional and System Abuse (2020) (0)
- Physical Abuse of Children (2020) (0)
- Child Protection in the Secondary School (2020) (0)
- Child Neglect is Neglected (2020) (0)
- Little Jim (2020) (0)
- Children Living with Domestic Violence (2020) (0)
- 'It did me no harm—I did no harm' (2020) (0)
- Developing a Child Abuse Prevention Policy 1 (2020) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
- The importance of parent participation in child protection curricula (1999) (0)
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