TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukraine— Course "Militia’s activity in combating domestic violence, which involvesformation of value orientation in students according to the idealsof humanism, democracy, social justice, respect for the individual,high level of legal awareness and legal culture, professional and personalqualities, fosters active citizenship, promotes awareness of therole and importance of law in the development and strengtheningof the Ukrainian state. The aim of the course on combating domesticviolence is to promote understanding by the students of the basicconcepts, such as violence, its basic forms and types, causes andconditions of its emergence on family basis, ways of overcoming andprevention, ability to use acquired knowledge to address those issuesthat arise during the work of militia officers of public safety, includingmilitia inspectors.In addition to the above disciplines the subject of characteristics of abuseis included into the following disciplines:— "Developmental psychology", which contains a separate chapter"The Psychology of adolescence" dwelling upon psychological characteristicsof mental and personality features of adolescent personality.— "Pedagogical psychology", which contains a separate chapter "ThePsychology of upbringing of teenagers” exploring the features of upbringingand psychological impact on the development of adolescentpersonality in the process of communication with equals in age, parents,teachers, and others.— “Psychology of deviant behavior,” which includes the topics as follows:“The causes of deviations in the behavior of adolescents”, “Specifics ofworking with delinquents”; these topics treat genetic and social factorsthat influence the occurrence of deviations in adolescence, as wellas psychological and pedagogical methods and techniques of influenceand correction of behavior of teenager.— "Psychology of the family," which includes "Peculiarities and communicationstyles of children in the family," which addresses issues relatedto interaction and parenting within the family, defines typical mistakesof parents in the education of their children.— “Social work in the militia department," which includes the topic "Socialwork with teenagers with deviant behavior", in this topic definesthe main tasks and directions of social work with a minor deviant,104