抄録
Although it is often "warned" that since a child is powerless and easily hurt, and that, if abused, he/she is likely to grow up to be a criminal or an abusive parent, recent studies in North America have resulted in rejecting this kind of causality. In Japan, however, the thinking is still strongly maintained that assistance to the children should be like one for vulnerable. While a change in the paradigm of aid philosophy from one based on paternalism to that of empowerment is taking place, it seems to this writer that empowerment of the children is ignored. This paper reexamines the traditional view of the child in the child welfare field, and a pathological model in the field of child abuse intervention from the viewpoint of "resilience", while it introduces an assistance program to abused children, quoting the Child Abuse Prevention program that has come to be known as a model program to empower the children.
