Robot-based psychological intervention program for the prevention of child sexual abuse v1

摘要

Sexual abuse of children is an important issue with severe consequences, so self-care education programs increase children's awareness, knowledge, and skills against sexual abuse. It has been considered as one of the priorities of health and treatment issues in different countries of the world. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the program of psychological interventions with a robot on the sexual care of children. The results showed that psychological interventions with robots are effective on children's sexual care. The prevention program is to prevent sexual victimization of children by helping them learn skills to protect themselves and teach them to recognize good and bad contact and seek a trusted adult for help and can be considered as a treatment method by counselors and psychologists.