A practical study on the community development approach focused on a regional council of countermeasures for Children Requiring Aid to prevent child abuse and neglect in local communities.

本研究调查了高中生和成年人在需要帮助时的求助行为，并探讨了社区发展方法的功能和作用，重点是一个地区性的儿童需要援助对策理事会（CRA），以防止当地社区的儿童虐待和忽视。CRA由地方政府、儿童指导中心、相关机构等组成。这项研究的结果表明，学生对他们所居住的社区的认同感比成年人更弱。此外，与成年人相比，学生在遇到困难时不寻求帮助的比例更高。CRA的功能和作用不受地区人口规模和CRA成立后的时间的影响。然而，儿童庇护中心的职能受到与这一领域专家会晤频率的影响，虽然在儿童庇护中心成立后，与有关机构的联系有所进展，但转介受虐待、忽视或怀疑受虐待或忽视的儿童的情况并没有增加。这表明，在虐待和/或忽视的早期阶段，很难发现和充分防止需要援助的儿童。

We investigated the help-seeking behavior of senior high school students and adults when in need, and discussed the function and role of community development approach focused on a regional council of countermeasures for Children Requiring Aid (CRA) to prevent child abuse and neglect in local communities. CRA consists of a local government, child guidance center, relevant bodies, etc.The results of this study showed that students identified themselves more weakly with communities where they lived than adults. =Furthermore, compared to the adults, a higher percentage of students did not seek help when they were in a difficult situation. The function and role of CRA were not influenced by both regional population size and time elapsed after CRA establishment. However, CRA function was influenced by the frequency of meeting with specialists working in this field.Although after establishment of CRA the liaison with relevant bodies progressed, referrals of children who were abused, neglected or suspected of being abused or neglected did not increase. This showed that its difficult to discover and prevent adequately children requiring aid at the early stage of abuse and/or neglect.