Noemí Pereda

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

La victimización infantil y adolescente es un importante problema social, tanto por su alcance como por sus graves efectos en el desarrollo y el gasto público que requiere para su reparación. Este artículo expone la importancia de trabajar desde la victimología del desarrollo, cuyo objetivo es facilitar la toma de decisiones y ofrecer evidencias ro...

There is a vast literature evaluating the empirical association between stay-at-home policies and crime during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these academic efforts have primarily focused on the effects within specific cities or regions rather than adopting a cross-national comparative approach. Moreover, this body of literature not only generally...

El COVID-19 y las medidas de confinamiento generaron cambios importantes en las estructuras sociales y en la organización familiar que propiciaron el aumento en los factores de riesgo para la infancia y la adolescencia, en relación con experiencias de victimización e impacto en la salud mental. Método: la muestra está conformada por 125 jóvenes de...

Background: The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus led to a series of containment and mitigation measures through lockdowns, social distancing, and the closure of educational establishments, which have had a profound impact on the mental health of the adolescent population.

This scoping review explores key aspects arising from recent research on child sexual exploitation (CSE) within the European context. CSE represents a form of sexual violence occurring across all regions and countries, impacting the most vulnerable children and adolescents. The exploiter or exploiters respond to the victim’s unmet basic needs and l...

Introduction: Although clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse (CSA) implies severe traumatic repercussions for the victims, they may also experience posttraumatic growth (PTG) deriving from the need to deal with the trauma suffered. This PTG is associated with the processes of recovery, healing, and empowerment. Objective: Applying a mixed methods...

Highly conflictive divorces represent a serious problem that affects the health of the children involved. Thus, in addition to the consequences derived from a tense and difficult judicial procedure, children experience the negative effects of inappropriate parental behavior that can have an impact on their health and development. To date no work ha...

A healing and recovery perspective related to child sexual abuse (CSA) has gained attention in the past two decades, a concept that accurately refers to the process is posttraumatic growth (PTG). Scarce empirical research on PTG in clergy-perpetrated CSA survivors shows evidence of the presence of growth after the abusive experience and a tendency...

This study explores the rates and odds of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their relationship to suicide attempts in a sample of undergraduate students (n = 924, 71.6% women), comparing lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth to their heterosexual counterparts. Using propensity score matching, we matched 231 sexual minority and 603 heterosexu...

While child and adolescent victimization is a problem of social concern, both due to its extent and its serious developmental effects, its academic study has not been a focus of victimological interest until very recently. In GReVIA (Research Group in Child Victimization), we study child and adolescent victimization applying the theoretical framewo...

The present work aims to show the differences in the occurrence of electronic victimization in the last year, between four different samples of Spanish adolescents. Likewise, it seeks to study whether there is a relationship between having suffered electronic victimization and other forms of victimization and whether cyber-victims show differences...

El presente trabajo pretende mostrar las diferencias de ocurrencia de victimización electrónica en el último año, entre cuatro muestras diferentes de adolescentes españoles. Asimismo, busca estudiar si existe relación entre haber sufrido victimización electrónica y otras formas de victimización y si las cibervíctimas muestran diferencias según sexo...

Background: Research has shown high rates of victimization among people with intellectual disabilities (ID), but victimization clusters have been barely explored. Objective: We address the gap by examining how reported victimization experiences are grouped into different classes and identifying differences in the characteristics of the individuals...

Este estudio exploratorio analiza la prevalencia de victimización electrónica durante el COVID-19, evaluando los posibles factores de riesgo, en 163 participantes de 14 a 17 años residentes en España. Se utilizó una adaptación del Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (Finkelhor, Ormrod, et al., 2005), administrada mediante una encuesta online. La p...

Over the last few decades there has been increased interest in studying the phenomenon of violence among people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Research addressing offending and victimization among this population suffers from generalised androcentrism by extrapolating findings to women, and is also homogenising, ignoring any individual and ge...

Objective: To describe the extension of the adverse experiences, including victimization, lived in childhood and adulthood in a sample of people with severe mental illness residing in Barcelona, Spain. Method: Descriptive, quantitative and cross-sectional study. Adverse and victimization experiences were assessed using 26 items from the Adverse...

Evidence on the outcomes of adolescent dating violence (ADV) victimization mainly derives from cross-sectional studies, which have limitations in suggesting causal relationships. Furthermore, the complexity of factors and overlapping dimensions in dating violence research, such as the forms of violence experienced, may have contributed to the varia...

Research has drawn attention to the stigma and high rates of victimization among people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and an overlap between bias and non-bias victimization. However, studies of bias events or hate crime involving persons with ID are scarce. Using a self-report measure, we analyze lifetime bias victimization in a sample of 260...

Introducción: El abuso sexual infantil (ASI) es una forma de maltrato universal e infraestimado que constituye un problema de salud pública. Afecta a la adaptación psicológica y mental de las víctimas, a corto y largo plazo, generando problemas físicos, emocionales, sociales y conductuales. Se pretende estudiar el impacto del ASI en cuanto a psicop...

Objectives: To compare the observed and forecasted crime trends in Barcelona, using crime statistics from January 2018 to March 2021. Methods: We trained (seasonal) auto-regressive integrated moving average modelling (95% confidence intervals) using daily recorded crimes from January 2018 to February 2020. These models were then used to forecast cr...

Research has shown that violent ideations (VIs) may play a key role in aggression and violence. However, there is no tool to measure this construct adapted to the Spanish language so far. The current study aims to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Violent Ideations Scale (VIS) in European Spanish. This study counts with a co...

There is a significant lack of research and knowledge regarding sexual victimization in the early childhood or preschool developmental stage. The present review aims to offer a solid theoretical framework for professionals in the victimology field on the experiences of sexual victimization of boys and girls up to 6 years of age. The topics covered...

RESUMEN Introducción. La pandemia derivada del SARS-CoV-2 y sus medidas de contención, principalmente el distanciamiento físico y el aislamiento, están teniendo consecuencias perjudiciales para la salud mental de la población infantojuvenil en todo el mundo. Objetivo. El objetivo fue identificar aquellas variables sociodemográficas, de victimizació...

Resumen: El objetivo fue identificar los factores asociados (i.e, demográficos y clínicos) con el uso de servicios de atención psicológica en adolescentes atendidos por el sistema de protección y justicia juvenil en Cataluña, España. Participaron 227 adolescentes, de 12 a 17 años. Además de obtener datos sociodemográficos y sobre la atención psicol...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its related containment measures, mainly physical distancing and isolation, are having detrimental consequences on the mental health of the juvenile infant population worldwide.

El Abuso Sexual Infantil (ASI) por parte de representantes de la Iglesia Católica en España está actualmente recibiendo una gran atención mediática. En los últimos años los medios de comunicación y grupos de investigación expertos en el problema han visibilizado, y siguen haciéndolo, diferentes partes de este fenómeno. A diferencia de lo que ha ocu...

Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a severe type of victimization that implies prolonged and devastating traumatization. However, some research suggests that CSA survivors can also experience personal and deep transformation in the aftermath of struggling with the pain and distress derived from the abuse experience, referred to as posttraumati...

The interventions used to prevent or treat violence against children, particularly sexual abuse, tend to only consider the target audience as their main source of data. We tested the effect of an online training for school staff members in Europe through three studies. In Study I, we interviewed 5 adult women (Mage = 49.2, SD = 5.81) who were victi...

The distal relationship between risk factors in childhood and subsequent dating violence in late adolescence has not often been explored using longitudinal data. This study aims to shed light on the problem of dating violence by examining children’s backgrounds at age 7 and the link to the future involvement in dating violence at age 17 using the f...

Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors can experience psychological changes and growth as a consequence of their victimization experience, known as posttraumatic growth (PTG). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dimensionality, reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory - Short Form (PTG...

Despite the growing number of bias-motivated violence studies, the evidence available remains limited, and there are several gaps in our understanding of the complex relationship between negative attitudes and biased violence. In addition, the literature on this topic has many facets and nuances and is often contradictory, so it is difficult to obt...

RESUMEN Detección de la explotación sexual en la infancia y la adolescencia mediante la evaluación de indicadores de riesgo en España Beatriz Benavente1, Lluis Ballester1, Jordi Pich1 y Noemí Pereda2 1Universitat de les Illes Balears. 2Universidad de Barcelona. Child sexual exploitation in Spain is a problem that requires the early detection of vic...

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a multifaceted global phenomenon in which adolescents involved in the child welfare system form a high-risk population. However, studies conducted in European countries remain scarce. We recruited a sample of 67 adolescents (50.7% girls and 47.8% boys) aged between 13 and 18 years old (M = 15.8;...

Background There have been very few longitudinal studies on online sexual solicitation and the online interaction between minors and adults. Still less evidence exists on the relationship of these problems with minors' Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Objective This study aimed to analyze the point prevalence, period prevalence (prevalence...

The Catholic Church has faced a large number of complaints against its representatives for sexual crimes that involved children and adolescents as victims. The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of this type of event, its characteristics, and its effects in terms of mental health and social consequences, as well as the spiritu...

El propósito del estudio fue conocer cómo los integrantes laicos de la comunidad católica del norte de Chile significan las acusaciones de abuso sexual cometidas por integrantes de la Iglesia Católica e interpretarlo desde la psicología social, a partir de la teoría de la justificación del sistema. Se realizó un estudio de análisis cualitativo de c...

Objectives The objective of this review is to provide a systematic and critical summary of findings regarding empirical studies conducted on commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in Europe. The purpose is to gain an understanding of the characteristics and main topics addressed in European research on CSEC, identify gaps, and give sugge...

The present pilot study assesses the influence of a training program about the prevention and detection of Child Sexual Abuse (Poñendo os Lentes) in increasing the knowledge about this topic among teachers trained through this program, compared to a group of untrained teachers. We analyze whether a group of 20 teachers trained through the Poñendo o...

The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and severity of teen dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents from both community and at-risk samples. The sample comprised 1,105 community adolescents from secondary schools, 149 adolescents from child, and adolescent mental health centers, 129 from residential care centers a...

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a problem that is highly prevalent in children and adolescents under legal protection. However, this form of sexual victimization, which includes multiple other forms of violence, is not only present in developing countries. In Spain we only have the data obtained by the Expert Commission from M...

Objective: The goal of this study was to examine a sample of 38 adult victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) by representatives of the Spanish Catholic Church. Method: An ad-hoc battery of questions divided into five sections was created: (a) Participant’s general personal information, faith, religion and belief system; (b) sexual victimization by the...

Les experiències de victimització que deriven de la violència interpersonal motivada pel prejudici, l’hostilitat o l’odi són altament freqüents en grups socials minoritaris, com les persones que formen part del col·lectiu de minories sexuals. Rigorosos estudis de revisió (Friedman et al., 2011) han constatat que el nombre d’experiències de victimi...

Background: Commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (CSECA) is a worldwide problem. The need to improve current detection and intervention protocols motivated this analysis, which aimed to use expert opinion to identify indicators (symptoms, conduct, or behaviors) that may help to predict the risk of suffering CSECA and to detec...

The interventions used to prevent or treat violence against children, particularly sexual abuse, only tend to consider the target audience as their main source of data. We tested the effect of an online training for school staff members in Europe through three studies. In Study I, we interviewed 5 adult women (Mage = 49.2, SD = 5.81) who were victi...

The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We conducted interrupted time series analyses to ass...

En este texto se presentan y comentan datos de las notifi caciones de sospechas de maltrato infantil desde la escuela. Finalmente, se exponen algunas estrategias para incentivar la actuación del personal escolar en términos de protección de la infancia y adolescencia.

This study examines the prevalence and characteristics of sexual victimization experiences suffered by people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The sample consisted of 260 adults with an ID diagnosis (154 men and 106 women), ranging in age from 20 to 71 years (M = 41.69, SD = 12.05). The results showed that 35% of the sample had been sexually vi...

La victimización sexual durante la infancia constituye un problema de elevada frecuencia en nuestro país, que puede tener graves repercusiones para el desarrollo y la salud integral de los niños, niñas y adolescentes. En este artículo se presenta una revisión del modelo europeo Barnahus, Las Casas de los Niños, para su posible implementación en nue...

A better understanding of the relationship between exposure to family violence and criminal recidivism is essential in order to develop interventions which target the specific needs of juvenile offenders. Using the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), we explored the differences in historical, social/contextual, and individual r...

Background There is a lack of research on the impact of poly-victimization on mental health in Mexico. Objective The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between poly-victimization and both internalizing and externalizing symptoms, in a community sample of Mexican adolescents. The starting hypothesis of this study was that poly-vi...

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of sexual victimization among a representative sample of children and youth from Chile and to analyze the sex and age differences. The First National Survey of Poly-victimization collected cross-sectional data via a self-report survey of 19,648 children and youth (aged 12-18 years). Lifetime victimizatio...

Schools are in a position to connect children and adolescents suspected of being victims of violence with an external source of support by making referrals to external agencies. However, several studies have identified obstacles that hinder early reporting among school staff members. Very few studies have applied a mixed-method approach to try to u...

The situation of crisis produced by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses major challenges to societies all over the world. While efforts to contain the virus are vital to protect global health, these same efforts are exposing children and adolescents to an increased risk of family violence. Various criminological theories explain the causes of...

Knowledge of child victimization among school staff is believed to affect the detection and reporting of potential cases in the school environment, but the current evidence is scarce and contradictory. We assessed the link between knowledge of victimization and other relevant reporter characteristics in detecting and reporting children suspected to...

RESUMEN La presente investigación describe las características de un grupo de 21 víctimas de abuso sexual por un representante de la Iglesia Católica en Chile. Se evaluaron las características de la victimización sexual y del victimario, la revelación, notificación y la vivencia de otras formas de victimización por personas no pertenecientes al cle...

People with intellectual disabilities appear to be more vulnerable to victimization. However, few studies have assessed victimization in these groups and those that do exist are highly heterogeneous and tend to focus only on specific forms of violence. This study attempts to shed light on the phenomenon of victimization among adults with intellectu...

Resumen El auge de Internet ha traído nuevas formas de victimización infantojuvenil, entre las que destaca el abuso sexual online. El estudio de esta forma de victimización es cada vez más frecuente a nivel mundial, pero existe escasez de instrumentos breves, en lengua española, que además ofrezcan buenas propiedades psicométricas. El objetivo del...

Este estudio busca analizar la relación entre la polivictimización, los factores de resiliencia y las conductas suicidas (ideación suicida y/o comportamiento de autolesión) en un grupo de 227 (145 varones y 82 mujeres) adolescentes atendidos por el sistema de protección y justicia juvenil español. Con edades comprendidas entre los 12 y los 17 años...

La victimización sexual infantil es un grave problema que afecta a uno de cada cinco niños y niñas de nuestro país y que requiere de una intervención temprana y eficaz, que permita superar las graves consecuencias que sus víctimas manifiestan. La Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual Focalizada en el Trauma (TF-CBT) es el modelo de intervención que reúne un...

Este es el primer estudio nacional en España en el que se evalúan las características diferenciales de la victimización sexual contra niños, niñas y adolescentes por parte de representantes de la Iglesia católica. Participaron 38 adultos (25 varones y 13 mujeres), a quienes se llegó mediante muestreo no probabilístico de conveniencia y bola de niev...

This descriptive study determined whether Spanish family law judges (N = 30) use the criteria proposed in the scientific literature and jurisprudence to assess cases of the relocation of minors after the breakdown of their parents’ relationship. Our results showed that the judges consider the criteria to be relevant in guiding their decision-making...

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for the world's 15- to 29-year olds. For every suicide, there are 10 to 20 suicide attempts in all age groups. Suicide is the second main cause of death in Spanish youth, after tumors. This study assessed the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and suicidality among Spanish young adults....

El presente estudio descriptivo muestra la valoración que los psicólogos forenses españoles (N = 64), otorgan a los criterios propuestos en la literatura científica para valorar casos de solicitud de traslado de menores tras la ruptura de los progenitores. Los resultados muestran que los profesionales otorgaron una alta importancia a los criterios...

Background: In Mexico, there is a little information about child and youth poly-victimization. Objective: The present study aimed to analyze the prevalence of victimization and poly-victimization in a community sample of Mexican adolescents aged 12-17 years. Participants and settings: The Mexican version of the Juvenile Victimization Questionn...

El profesorado se encuentra en una situación privilegiada para poder detectar el maltrato infantil, pero solo un pequeño porcentaje de los casos conocidos son notificados por las escuelas. Existen protocolos de detección y herramientas para facilitarla, pero aun así la detección por parte del profesorado parece encontrar obstáculos. Este estudio pr...

A pesar de haber existido a lo largo del tiempo en todas las sociedades, las múltiples formas de victimización que deben afrontar niños, niñas y adolescentes a lo largo de su desarrollo no han comen- zado a estudiarse hasta hace relativamente poco (Finkelhor, 2007). Esto es debido a una falta de consideración del menor como una persona de derechos,...

According to the attribution theory, negative outcomes of child sexual abuse (CSA) are thought to vary depending on whether CSA victims attribute the abuse to internal or external factors, respectively, self-blame and perpetrator-blame. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify abuse characteristics and attitudes that influence blame att...

El presente trabajo responde al artículo de Ferrer-Pérez y Bosch-Fiol (2019) en el que se acusa de ceguera de género a aquellos estudios empíricos que muestran que la violencia en las relaciones de pareja es un fenómeno complejo y multicausal que afecta a ambos sexos. Así, se hace una revisión de las falacias que permiten construir un discurso basa...

RESUMEN El presente artículo tiene como objetivo describir el estado actual de las investigaciones sobre victimización infanto-juvenil en Chile, desde la propia perspectiva de los niños, niñas y adolescentes. A través de una metodología de análisis bibliométrico, se realizó una búsqueda electrónica en las bases de datos Medline, PsycINFO, SciELO, S...

Se presenta un análisis de las características sociodemográ cas, per l victimológico y sintoma- tología externalizante de los jóvenes con expediente único en justicia juvenil, y aquellos jóvenes con doble expediente en el sistema de protección y de justicia juvenil. La muestra consta de 101 adolescentes (M = 16,08 años; DT = 0,99) implicados en el...

El objetivo de este estudio es incrementar el conocimiento sobre el proceso de revelación y denuncia del abuso sexual infantil en España, mediante entrevistas a 15 víctimas adultas que han vivido esta experiencia antes de los 18 años. Se han recogido datos sobre la revelación y denuncia, la reacción de sus interlocutores y su opinión respecto de la...

This study assessed the relationship between poly-victimization and suicidality in 227 adolescents involved in child and youth-serving systems (i.e., child welfare and juvenile justice systems) in Spain. The mean age of participants was 15.24 years (SD = 1.56 (range 12 to 17). The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (which includes conventional cr...

Objective: This study aims to determine whether three different methodological approaches used to assess poly-victimization that apply the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ; Finkelhor, Hamby, Ormrod, & Turner, 2005) identify the same group of adolescent poly-victims. Method: The sample consisted of 1,105 adolescents (590 males and 515 fe...

The aim of this article is to report the prevalence of youth victimization and poly-victimization in northern Chile. Using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire, a sample of 706 adolescents ages 12 to 17 were surveyed. The results indicated that 89% of the participants had experienced victimization at least once in their lives and 76.8% had expe...

Externalizing symptoms correspond to a set of behavioral problems related to aggressiveness and the violation of norms. These disorders are common during adolescence, especially in poly-victimized populations. However, not much is known about the mechanism underlying the relationship between poly-victimization and symptoms or about the factors that...