The development of assessment methods of suspected harassers in harassment counselling in universities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06856
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Nakazawa Mimiko 名古屋大学, ハラスメント相談センター, 助教 (80777300)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ハラスメント / アカデミック・ハラスメント / 加害者 / アセスメント / 人権

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to decrease the number of harassment problems, focused on the assessment of harassers, and analyzed its methods. The assessment is the practice that the interpersonal service professionals understand the situation and mentality of the harassers together with the harassers by themselves. Senses of balance and ethics of the interpersonal service professionals are important for the assessment. In fiscal year 2016, interviews with domestic interpersonal service professionals were performed using a fictional case of academic harassment and the data were collected. In fiscal year 2017, interviews with interpersonal service professionals in Denmark and Michigan, USA were performed and multidirectional knowledges about dealing with harassers, etc. were achieved. The list of assessment points and the check list of assessment were finally prepared.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学