Moving Away from Slapping and Promoting Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children in Ireland
Year: 2019
Type: editorial
Abstract: As far back as 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child called on all member states (including Ireland) to ban the corporal punishment of children and to institute educational programmes on positive discipline 1. Thanks in no small measure to the persistence of Senator Jillian van Turnhout, Ireland since 2015 is among 52 countries to have banned corporal punishment. Compelling international evidence has since emerged to fully highlight the long-term effects of slapping children
Source: PubMed
Author: A Nicholson
Language: English
Topic: Child Abuse and Trauma
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3021229774