Traduction de «directeur de la psychologie de l'enfant » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Member States shall ensure that staff of law enforcement authorities and of detention facilities who handle cases involving children, receive specific training to a level appropriate to their contact with children with regard to children's rights, appropriate questioning techniques, child psychology, and communication in a language adapted to the child.

Member States should take appropriate measures to ensure that judges and prosecutors who deal with criminal proceedings involving children have specific competence in that field or have effective access to specific training, in particular with regard to children's rights, appropriate questioning techniques, child psychology, and communication in a language adapted to children.

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure that officials and staff working for the authorities who are likely to come into contact with unaccompanied minors, including those who are victims of human trafficking, are qualified and trained accordingly, so that they are able to identify and appropriately deal with such cases, and to provide them with adequate training on the specific needs of unaccompanied minors and on children's rights, children's behaviour and psychology, and asylum and migration law; calls on the Member States to set up compulsory gender-specific training for personnel receiving unaccompanied minors in shelters as well ...[+++]as for interviewers, decision-makers and legal representatives of unaccompanied minors, and to ensure that the police and the legal authorities in the Member States regularly undergo gender-specific training; stresses that the person responsible for the minor should inform and advise them, but can only supplement legal advice and cannot replace it; points out that, regardless of the nationality of the child, and of whether this nationality is recognised, the Member State in which the unaccompanied child finds him or herself must act as the child’s guardian and provide him or her with the highest degree of protection;

Children represent a vulnerable population group with developmental, physiological and psychological differences from adults.

In the first place, many psychological experiments show how children − especially children, but adults too − learn aggression, negative attitudes and negative behaviour from television and the other media.

It looks at special and general health care needs, including the specific problems of hygiene and the special demands of the female psyche; handling problems arising from women prisoners’ past histories; the special situation of mothers – indeed, statistics show that half of those detained in Europe have under-age children; special conditions during pregnancy; the birth of children in prison and the protection of children during their first years of life when they have to live with their mothers in prison.