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a publication of issue center for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse 63 december 2011 s we have harings this issue rapha p.2 philippine journal of child sexual abuse p.4 the learning institute p.6 best practices p.8 friends of cptcsa p.10 announcements p.10 the learning institute of collaboration and interdependency it has been a good and fruitful 16 years since cptcsa came into being zenaida rosales executive director of cptcsa introduces the learning instiitute launching at the sulo riviera hotel in quezon city as lois engelbrecht board trustees vice-chairperson and co-founder looks on collective collaborative and interdependent work where everyone does their job in a level playing field without much regard to professional hierarchy cptcsa has been trying its best to hone the skills needed to improve the services related to child sexual abuse since we opened our first summer institute in 1996 we have sponsored and helped start similar projects in china malaysia vietnam and india we believe in the empowerment of social workers and professionals involved in child protection by enhancing their importantly there is a need for equality of the professions dealing with child care and safety we still have a lot to do on behalf of the officers and staff of cptcsa i would like to welcome you all to this momentous activity mabuhay tayong lahat seen its growing pains the organization of the officers and board members looking for funds for its activities projects and operations advocacy training of the staff and rotary club of palanyag paranaque president mr edgar alvarez sponsored and information and communicaand shared words of inspiration at the learning tion materials liaising with similarly-minded groups the holding of institute launch with this year s rotary international theme reach within to embrace humanity a yearly summer institute painstaking work with government agenciese.g dswd deped cwc other workers in the field of child sexual publication of a newsletter see page 8 among others and now the launching of our learning institute there is a need for multidisciplinary dr reynaldo lesaca jr president emeritus of cptcsa gives the welcoming remarks knowledge and skills but most

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issue no 63 december 2011 page 2 being safe places for others written by henri nouwen when we are free from the need to judge or condemn we can become safe places for people to meet in vulnerability andseparate them being deeply rooted in the love of god we cannot help but invite people to love one another when people realize that we have no hidden agendas or unspoken intentions that we are not trying to gain any profit for ourselves and that we have no hidden agendas or unspoken intentions that we are not trying to gain any profit for ourselves and that our desire is for peace and reconciliation they may find the inner freedom and courage to leave their guns at the door and enter into conversation with their enemies many times this happens even without our planning our ministry of reconciliation most often takes place when we ourselves are least aware of it our simple non-judgmental presence does it rapha a place to heal by regina rabanillo mentors who have the ability to empower the counselors bring our the best in them so that they are able to attend the clients in the best way possible cptcsa has been doing counseling in the same facility where other personnel also do the daily task of advocacy prevention fund raising admin and many other office transactions regina rabaniilo head counselor of the cptcsa treatment unit introduced rapha to the learning institute launching guests our major sources of referrals are ngos lgus and dswd that provides residential during the last quarter of 2011 cptcsa was finally able to move the counseling facility separate form the office this move was inspired by our continuous quest for excellence and respect for the rights of our clientele to ensure that clients are afforded with appropriate confidentiality and privacy i am happy to present to you a big leap that cptcsa has taken to improve our counseling services since 1995 we have served a total of 807 children and youth who experienced some form of sexual abuse it has been care to sexually abused children but over the years as more and more people are able to access the internet we also receive referrals and inquiries from individuals who came across information about us from the web continued from page 5 it was found that among the six symptoms sexual concerns were consistently clinically significant and therefore required more attention in treatment t-test results that the resilient group was significantly affected by their sexual abuse experience having higher levels of depression anger and dissociation at the start but they showed better capacity than the less resilient group to effectively interact and respond more positively to treatment a two-way anova revealed no significant interaction between the effects of clay therapy and resilience on trauma symptoms t-tests showed that the 9-session 5-week clay therapy intervention was not long enough to produce any significant difference in the participant s trauma symptoms more time seemed needed for this intervention to show statistically significant effects however from their qualitative evaluation of the intervention clay therapy obviously had very positive effects to the participants and showed promise as a powerful and innovative treatment tool for working with sexually abused children it is cptcsa s practice to reflect on our own work internal and external assessment of our projects were constantly done both at the request of funding partners and out of our rapha the newest cptcsa facility was developed and created the name of the counseling facility is a cptcsa s practice to involve non -offending parents or guardians in the counseling of children we have served a total of 279 adults most of them mothers or female caregivers we conducted both individual and group counseling rapha is a hebrew word that means heal hebrew word that means healing or to heal it also means stitching which like healing is a own need and we still ing it also means stitch slow and careful process of plan to continue the same process among ing which like healing is a slow and careful mending to provide holistic services to our clientele cptcsa networks with ngos who provide legal services child psychiatrists specifically from the philippine children s medical center and other counselors form the field of pastoral and family counseling the the lessons we have learned along the way are 1 counseling since october of 2011 all process of mending counseling services are now conducted in rapha there are two counseling rooms one for each counselor one room is especially sexually abused children young sex offenders and their families requires focus since this is an emotionally and intellectually taxing process a counselor needs to be able to concentrate and deal with the many facets of the issue it being a complicated social issue 2 counseling does not stand on its own collaboration with other professionals for the best interest of the child is needed 3 counseling sexually abused children needs abuse-specific assessment and intervention frameworks 4 counselors need mentors designed to cater to the needs of younger and smaller children who are best served through non-directive methods such as play therapy and using arts and crafts we are sorry we cannot invite you to rapha but we thank you for being here today and look forward to sharing what we learned in the rapha walls thank you again for coming and more power to us all last two are regular members of cptcsa s treatment response team a monthly case conference team that is our venue to discuss assessment and interventions appropriate to specific cases as the need arises cptcsa also networks with the philippine national police.

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play therapy individual and group counseling help children heal treatment services for child victims and child offenders of sexual abuse cptcsa s treatment services can help by providing a safe release of feelings overcoming negative and potentially self-destructive behavior helping understand what part of thinking has been affected by the abuse and help correct distortions helping build a sense of trust in the child and in a positive future enabling children to gain a sense of a milestone of cptcsa treatment response unit perspective about the abuse and to gain the emotional distance to ensure that clients are afforded with appropriate confidentiality and privacy rapha the newest cptcsa was developed and created rapha is safely tucked in a confidential location currently rapha has two air-conditioned counseling rooms and a well-ventilated lounge area with reception desk necessary to keep the trauma from hurting in the future and supporting the child to come to terms with her or his own sexuality including good feel on the upper left hand wing is a photo of the rapha lounge area with wooden chairs and tree mural art on its walls group counseling room for bigger children displayed on the upper right hand wing as well as the top photo on this page and the play therapy counseling room for younger children with sandbox dolls and colorful toys dishealthy ings surrounding sexual behaviors and the ability to tinguish sexuality from that of what is abusive issue no 63 december 2011 page 3

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issue no 63 december 2011 page 4 research guidelines cptcsa has been protecting its clients from outside research however with the launching of the learning institute we now wish to facilitate outside research in the field of child sexual abuse at the same time cptcsa needs to protect our clients from all possible harm we have drafted some initial guidelines for access to our clientele for your research this process will need 4-6 weeks to complete philippine journal of child sexual abuse dr lois j engelbrecht presented the first issue of the philippine journal of child sexual abuse at the cptcsa s the learning institute launch written by dr lois j engelbrecht the philippine journal of schools communities familywe thank our brave and committed founding editors representing some of the multidisciplinary professions in child sexual abuse dr johnny b decatoria dr lois engelbrecht reynaldo j lesaca jr m.d dr emma porio and dr jose sotto the 1 permission from professor ensuring all ethical standards are followed if the research is for a degree 2 access to the clients is through t their counselor only child sexual abuse has long been a goal of cptcsa now because of the professional based programs and institutions the philippine journal of child sexual abuse provides multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child sexual abuse the research on and experience in child sexual abuse in the philippines is increasing in order to fill the gap in dis 3 access to the clients for non direct contact such as to complete surveys needs approval from the agency treatment response team first who will evaluate each question and the instrument in general each client will be given full disclosure about the research and the client s role in that research the client must agree network we ve built over the years and funding from terre des hommes netherlands we are pleased to finally see this goal reach fruition we have always conducted our own ongoing assessment of our clients shielding them from the outside however with the launch we especially want to thank our first authors rebecca lanes is the author of the first article the innovative potential of clay and play clay therapy resilience and trauma symptoms of sexually abused seminating the research the editorial team will make every effort to seek out research for the publication the journal will have two distinct parts of the dialogue on critical pluralism of child sexual abuse in the philippines research-based 4 no access will be given to any document that includes any identifying information and no identifying information will be given to the researcher of this journal cptcsa has written guidelines for how we can open our work and our clients to outside research while still protecting them physically emotionally and socially girls this is an example of an academic research-based article regina rabanillo is the author of the second article traumagenic dynamics frameworks with filipino clients an example of evidencebased practice academic manuscripts and evidence-based scripts practical manu 5 if the research requires any direct contact with the client the researcher must meet with the agency treatment response team to present the purpose and details of the contact and research the counselor will then fully disclose to the clients and give the client a choice to participate our goal is to publish indigenous research to gain respect for our indigenous research-based practices and build insights based in the philippine psychology and experience from a multidisciplinary perspective based on data from the frontline staff working with children and their families in cptcsa researchers and practitioners in the field of social work sociology psychology psychiatry medicine law and education are all invited to contribute to filling in all the we invite you all in the work to build a safe world for our children cptcsa from our inception wanted to be the impetus for a movement a movement joined by everyone led by a multidisciplinary collaborative team pieces of the puzzle for effective services in the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse.

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f ounding edit ors the innovative potential of play and clay clay therapy resilience and trauma symptoms of sexually abused girls rebecca v lanes and johnny b decatoria abstract the aim of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effects of clay therapy as treatment modality and to examine the role of resilience on the trauma symptoms as measured by trauma symptom checklist for children briere 1996 of 24 sexually abused girls ages 11 to 17 years old from three rehabilitation centers in negros occidental a nine-session five-week module on clay therapy with a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral approach and resilience as measured by the resiliency scales for children and adolescents or rsca prince-embury 2007 were the two independent variables trauma symptoms consisting of anxiety depression anger post traumatic stress dissociation and social concerns were the dependent variables participants were randomly assigned to the experimental or control group the former was given clay therapy while the latter a placebo activity for each of the treatment groups a resilient group was also determined based on the rsca scores the study followed a 2x2 fully-crossed factorial design read more on page philippine journal of child sexual abuse johnny b decatoria is a clinical psychologist educator psychotherapist clinical social worker and a trauma specialist he finished his liberal arts degree in psychology at the university of negros occidental-recoletos in bacolod city and completed his master in arts in clinical psychology at far eastern university-manila he earned his ph d in clinical social and psychology at la salle university is u.s.a dr lois engelbrecht has all three degrees in social work from the united states and practical experience in the philippines india vietnam malaysia china saudi arabia and ghana reynaldo lesaca jr md is a privately practicing psychiatrist of 35 years he recently retired from government after 17 years of service with the national kidney and transplant institute in quezon city dr emma porio professor and chairperson of the department of sociology and the cover of the first issue of the philippine journal of child sexual abuse anthropology at the ateneo de manila university dr jose sotto earned his ph d in counseling and special education minor in social work from wayne state university michigan traumagenic dynamics framework with filipino clients regina rabanillo rsw abstract the traumagenic dynamics framework of finkelhor and browne 1986 was developed based in western experience the article presents filipino examples using the framework validating its use for assessment here this research is based in randomly chosen 25 case studies of girls who were aged 11 to 18 at the time of intake seventeen of the girls were victims of incest that ranged from molestation to rape two of the girls were offended by more than one family member two of the girls got pregnant by the stepfather and gave birth another girl got pregnant by the father but after she lost the baby she suspected that her father made her drink abortive pills eight of the 25 girls were raped by non-family members five of them were raped by two or more offenders the duration of abuse ranged from a single incident of sexual assault to nine years of ongoing abuse of the 25 cases the highest of the traumagenic dynamics assessed were stigmatization followed by betrayal powerlessness and traumatic sexualization issue no 63 december 2011 page 5 his master of education from the university of windsor canada his bachelor of education from wesleyan university philippines and ministry from princeton theological seminary new jersey call for papers the research on and experience in child sexual abuse in the philippines is increasing in order to fill the gap in disseminating the research the editorial team seeks academic and practical articles to increase our understanding of the multidisciplinary context of child sexual abuse researchers and practitioners in the field of social work sociology psychology psychiatry medicine law and education are all invited to contribute to filling in all pieces of the puzzle for effective services in the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse our first several issues will thank its contributors with php1,000.

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the learning institute of collaboration and interdependency by zenaida s rosales why the need for the learning institute as one of cptcsa mandates it aims to become a credible training and resource a filipino nation working together to stop child sexual abus usi ng o ur str eng th o f co lla bo ra tio n and int er de pen de n ce the learning institute is a collaborative platform with special attention placed on social work but is open to all professionals and paraprofessionals in the field of child protection working with the common goal of creating a safe world for our platform for children p re s ch o o l platform for childp ro t e ct ionandde ve l o p me n t continuing professional education cpe units are d a ry s ch o o l center with highly competent pool of professional trainers and counselors the learning institute aims to provide up-to-date local and international information resource on child sexual abuse and to facilitate efficient and effective platforms for collaborative and interdependent learning on prevention treatment research counseling collaborative a the learning institute credited as social work license renewal requirements cpe units are composed of three modules for professional response to child sexual abuse prevention nities are provid mandated by de 1 personal sa prevention treatment intervention advocacy research treatment and rehabilitation of young sex offenders and secondary safety lessons professionals counseling specialty courses are five opportunities for social workers and counselors and appropriate legal and case management today as a realization of this goal and the beginning of this dream we are now sharing with you this milestone of launching of cptcsa learning institute individual counseling for victims group counseling for victims individual counseling for young sex offender group counseling for young sex offenders counseling and case management utilizing the multi-disciplinary team mdt model advanced coll opportunities safety lessons finished level 1 in implementing in children s clas child protection and development electives are courses taken from the outreach and advocacy program of platform for parents home and community leaders school teache taken from the program of pla what is cptcsa learning institute it has these three characteristics community of learners intensive courses are all courses under continuing professional education and counseling specialty courses with practicum and mentoring and community interdependency and collaboration collaborative platform of community of learners learning sharing and working together to stop child sexual abuse and to create a safer world for children www.cptcsa.org read more on page the learning institute

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se cptcsa the learning institute launch platform for p a re n t s h o me andcom mu nityleaders outreach and advocacy programs are opportunities for community-based awareness and skill-building examples are the following r p ri ma r y s e co nltea ch e r s and interactive opportu ded for school teachers as eped order no 45 level afety lessons for primary kids and teens court awareness program empowering victims of sexual abuse through bible-based curriculum family and community advocacy training on prevention of child sexual abuse protective behaviors keeping children safe from sexual abuse child protection policy and building a multidisciplinary team y teachers and personal s for preschool and eccd laborative and interactive are level 2 personal for trainers/teachers who for more information about course structure requirements and costs kindly visit our website at www.cptcsa.org/learning-institute 1 psl and have experience g personal safety lessons ssrooms ers electives are courses email us for inquiries feedback and suggestions regarding these programs and courses at learning@cptcsa.org e outreach and advocacy atform for parents home y leaders tell us how we can help let s work together for a safer world for children the learning institute is a concept a platform for collaborative solutions for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse issue no 63 december 2011 page 7

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issue no 63 december 2011 page 8 rotary club of palanyag paranaque gives the sponsor sharing remarks terres des hommes announces the publication of wriiten by mr nestor alvarez ladies and gentlemen good afternoon first of all i would like to thank you all for inviting me to speak before you in this launching day of learning institute and coinciding with the first issue of cptcsa s journal of child sexual abuse it is a great honor making the world safe for children indeed and a privilege for me to be here today secondly on behalf of our group the rotary club of palayag paranaque i wish to congratulate you for this yet another milestone of your organization it shows only that your organization led by your chairperson ms stella echano of terres des hommes announced the publication of making the world safe for children at the learning institute launch held at the sulo riviera hotel on november 11 2011 written by stella echano the partnership cptcsa and between des nationwide which led to the passage of department order no 45 and 3 identify good practices or approaches challenges and gaps in preventing and treating child sexual abuse cptcsa would even be a more vibrant organization in the future and therefore would be a driving force in making a difference in the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse not only in the philippines but in other parts of the world terres hommes netherlands tdh started in 1996 with the support of the treatment program together we journeyed into the organizational evolution and development as a of cptcsa resource terre des hommes had specific objectives for the publication of making the world safe for children experiences of center for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse as follows 1 facilitate self reflection and draw out positive and negative experiences 2 guide cptcsa in writing its history and biography 3 identify learning points and 4 produce a together with cptcsa we participated in the integrated programmatic approach to child protection amongst the tdh partners in the philippines which paved the way for the formation of a counselors network in addition tdh supported the activities for mainstreaming the personal the framework of the study was 1 document the experiences of cptcsa in fulfilling and protecting the rights of children in vulnerable situations 2 identify and validate experiences that allow the sharing of learning and mistakes that are valuable internally and externally publication of the organization s history the methodology used was 1 documentary review and review of related literature 2 workshop with cptcsa staff 3 interviews with deped teachers supervisors parents local government officials and child survivors and 4 focused group discussion with students with age ranges from 14 to 16 in selected schools in rotary we also share a common vision of a better world by sharing our talents resources and time to be able to conduct various programs and activities to uplift the life of impoverished people in our adopted communities among those programs are our commitment in helping our youth become active in pursuing good values as a citizen as well as train them as future leaders guided by the principle that the future s generation is our youth today rotary has a great mission of making a difference in the life of our youth agency in the capacity building program in case management training of social workers and counselors limitations of the study are 1 few partners were visited due to budget constraints partners were selected on the basis of success of their partnership with cptcsa as well as achievements in the project implementation 2 lack of uniformity in the creation of multi-disciplinary teams among psl partners and 3 because of the sensitivity of the safety lessons psl into the curriculum of public schools continue to page 10

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t he learning i nst it ut e of c ollaborat ion and i nt erdependenc y only a few were chosen to be interviewed chapter 4 treatment and rehabilitation of victims/survivors and young sexual offenders of child sexual major parts of the book abuse chapter 1 the cptcsa background and history conclusions and lessons learned it is also a collaborative platform of learners where individual expertise strengths and research-based solutions are duly recognized and shared for a common goal to protect children from chapter 2 child sexual abuse in the philippines and the development of personal safety lessons making the world safe for children experiences of center for the prevenchapter 3 establishing policies to tion and treatment of child sexual address and prevent child sexual abuse will be printed and distributed abuse through advocacy lobbying on the first quarter of 2012 and networking who can participate in the learning institute child protection duty bearers and professionals from different backgrounds and practices and leaders advocates paraprofessionals and educators challenges abuse cptcsa learning institute is a concept and not a fixed place sessions are conducted at different venues physical or virtual that can be done via elearning webinar or face-to-face interaction of the following formats annual summer institute quarterly courses 1-day to week-long coursework and 20-week coursework that involves training and mentoring written by zenaida s rosales continued from page 6 how can we participate in the learning institute by enlisting as individual or group in our coursework which are continuing professional education with 3 modules in prevention treatment and rehabilitation of young sex offenders counseling specialty courses in individual group and case management for sexually abused children with mdt component kids and teens court awareness program empowering victims of sexual abuse through bible-based curriculum family and community advocacy training on prevention of child sexual abuse protective behaviors and children protection policy with multi-disciplinary team component and most importantly intensive courses of continuing professional education and counseling specialty courses for social workers with practicum and mentoring for each course the learning institute knowledge center the cover design of the book documentation of cptcsa s experience in cooperation with terres des hommes the learning institute has in its knowledge resources a reference library internetjournal library and an online bookstore the library has up-to-date international and filipiniana resources journals and information relevant to child sexual abuse namely international journal for social work journal of child abuse and neglect and journal of child sexual abuse the internet library has international peer-reviewed journals articles and books on all topics the online bookstore will soon merchandise cptcsa s own publications of training materials such as curriculum manuals workbooks storybooks and digital videos this soon will be issue no 63 december 2011 page 9 launched online by logging on to www.cptcsa.org/bookstore.

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issue no 63 december 2011 page 10 cptcsa staff zenaida s rosales executive director rotary club of palanyag paranaque gives the sponsor sharing remarks yet if we are to make an assessment nothing is limited in ways we could further extend the noble missions of rotary and one of which is the protection of our children in our society as important as achieving a real equality and justice in our society the protection of our children reflects regina rabanillo jennifer cueva treatment response team the kind of sensitive values we have in advocating what is just and what is good for our next generation and personally i believe this is one nobler mission we could pursue along with our existing programs as responsible citizens gina lompero ma theresa gulapa prevention program team of our country we should not close our eyes and remain deaf in this very serious social issue which affects all sectors of society and destroys the lives of our young children mr nestor alvarez president of rotary club delivers his sponsor sharing remarks at the learning institute launch held at the sulo riviera hotel on november 11 2011 lorelei almirez resource mobilization unit jennifer gebilanguin charito solis-taniegra finance and admin therefore on behalf of our club i join and support you in pursuing the noble purpose of your organization continued from page mabuhay kayong lahat sa cptcsa aside from the fact that rotarians have been staunch advocates of integrity and high ethical standards in their professional and business dealings one may say that in rotary we have more than enough programs to help alleviate cptcsa the lives of many fellowmen center for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse would like to thank starbucks matalino street branch in quezon city for its year-round support and generous goodies for cptcsa staff and clients thank you starbucks and more power cptcsa at pldt s pasko paksiw pakyaw christmas bazaar at the ccp complex pasay city december 15-21 2011 become a partner in developing a safe world and join friends of center for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse we salute your help in maintaining already existing safe behaviors by teaching your children simple safety rules and supporting child protection laws step up to the challenge by expanding your understanding and become a real part of the solution join the friends of cptcsa for personal insights into your own empowerment as you join our incredible journey to create a safer filipino world.

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