Between 2003 and 2006 she coordinated the clinical team of the Child and Family Centre in Warsaw (59 Walecznych Str.) – a specialized facility providing help for abused children and their families. Previously responsible for the development and implementation of the Psychological Help Programme for children living in abusive families within "Blue Line": the Polish Nationwide Emergency Service for Victims of Domestic Violence.

Katarzyna has experience in clinical work with child victims of violence and their families, in undertaking interventions in cases of domestic violence, and in carrying out training programmes, social campaigns (e.g., she was engaged in the organization and implementation of the "Childhood Without Violence" campaign), and conferences (including National Conferences on Violence organized by PARPA, The State Agency for Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems, and IPZ, the Institute of Health Psychology).

She has co-developed and co-implemented many preventive and intervention programmes (e.g., "Moje Rysy" – a programme for children and youth staying in the Police Children’s Shelter; "Difficult Feelings" – a programme focusing on family violence prevention; "Mina" – violence prevention; and a programme for adolescents after alcohol use initiation). The author of programmes aimed at protecting children from violence (e.g., the "Child Witness" programme within the Emergency Service "Blue Line"), and class scenarios focusing on the prevention of children’s risky behaviours on the Internet.

Recently Katarzyna has been coordinating the Helpline.org.pl project – a service providing support and crisis interventions for victims of child abuse on the Internet. She is also one of the authors of the Programme for Unaccompanied Foreign Children and Victims of Child Trafficking.

She has written several articles published in professional journals and has conducted many training sessions, lectures, workshops and meetings of work groups representing various services and institutions (e.g., the police, prosecution offices, boarder guards, and residential care institutions) concerning violence against children. Since 2003 Katarzyna has been working for the Nobody’s Children Foundation (Warsaw, Poland).

ABSTRACT

29 September, Tuesday, 14.45 - 17.00

Parallel session: Responding to online risks
Presentation topic: Internet addictions

A special pedagogue, psychtherapist (a graduate from a 2,5-year course on Child and Family Psychotherapy and a 4-year course of psychotherapy in Collegium Medicum at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow), and specialist in violence prevention.

Between 2003 and 2006 she coordinated the clinical team of the Child and Family Centre in Warsaw (59 Walecznych Str.) – a specialized facility providing help for abused children and their families. Previously responsible for the development and implementation of the Psychological Help Programme for children living in abusive families within “Blue Line”: the Polish Nationwide Emergency Service for Victims of Domestic Violence. Katarzyna has experience in clinical work with child victims of violence and their families, in undertaking interventions in cases of domestic violence, and in carrying out training programmes, social campaigns (e.g., she was engaged in the organization and implementation of the “Childhood Without Violence” campaign), and conferences (including National Conferences on Violence organized by PARPA, The State Agency for Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems, and IPZ, the Institute of Health Psychology). She has co-developed and co-implemented many preventive and intervention programmes (e.g., “Moje Rysy” – a programme for children and youth staying in the Police Children’s Shelter; “Difficult Feelings” – a programme focusing on family violence prevention; “Mina” – violence prevention; and a programme for adolescents after alcohol use initiation). The author of programmes aimed at protecting children from violence (e.g., the “Child Witness” programme within the Emergency Service “Blue Line”), and class scenarios focusing on the prevention of children’s risky behaviours on the Internet (Nobody’s Children Foundation). Recently Katarzyna has been coordinating the Helpline.org.pl project – a service providing support and crisis interventions for victims of child abuse on the Internet. She is also one of the authors of the Programme for Unaccompanied Foreign Children and Victims of Child Trafficking.

She has written several articles published in professional journals and has conducted many training sessions, lectures, workshops and meetings of work groups representing various services and institutions (e.g., the police, prosecution offices, boarder guards, and residential care institutions) concerning violence against children. Since 2003 Katarzyna has been working for the Nobody’s Children Foundation (Warsaw, Poland).