Effects of the Dutch skills for life program on the health behavior, bullying, and suicidal ideation of secondary school students

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of the Dutch “Skills for Life” programme on students’ health behaviours, bullying behaviour and suicidal ideation. Design/methodology/approach – The effectiveness of the “Skills for Life” programme on health behaviour outcomes was evaluated at three points in time in using a cluster...

Facilitators and barriers to the successful implementation of a protocol to detect child abuse based on parental characteristics

To determine the critical facilitating and impeding factors underlying successful implementation of a method to detect child abuse based on parental rather than child characteristics known as the Hague Protocol. The original implementation region of the protocol (The Hague) was compared to a new implementation region (Friesland), using analysis...

Effecten van het lesprogramma ‘Levensvaardigheden’ op gezondheid en gedrag van leerlingen van het voortgezet onderwijs

A new protocol for screening adults presenting with their own medical problems at the Emergency Department to identify children at high risk for maltreatment

Identifying child abuse and neglect solely on the grounds of child characteristics leaves many children undetected. We developed a new approach (Hague protocol) based on characteristics of parents who attend the Emergency Department (ED) because they have the following problems: (1) intimate partner violence, (2) substance abuse, or (3) suicide...