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WAVE Trust (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE) was formed in 1996 and registered as an international educational charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales〔http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1080189&SubsidiaryNumber=0〕 under Number 1080189 in 1999. The charity is dedicated to reducing the key root causes of interpersonal violence: child neglect and maltreatment. The method used is a business strategy approach to identify and then tackle these problems at root cause level. WAVE’s fundamental message is that most family violence and maltreatment can be prevented by known, economically viable programmes to break damaging family cycles. They say their research identifies and actively promotes UK adoption of global best practice methods and programmes to address violence, e.g. the Nurse-Family Partnership.〔http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org〕 WAVE also says extensive research highlights the crucial nature of experience from conception to age 3 in the formation of seriously violent personalities, largely because of the sensitive nature of the infant brain during these formative years. Research also identifies two important early conditions as antidotes to the development of violent personalities: attunement between carers and babies, and the development of empathy in the child.〔Hosking, G.D.C. and Walsh, I.R. (2005). ''(WAVE Report 2005: Violence and what to do about it )'' WAVE Trust〕 == WAVE strategies to reduce violence and child abuse == * Identify the root causes of child abuse and violence. * Find the most effective methods known to address these root causes. * Promote the adoption of these proven methods. WAVE cites the research finding that between birth and age 3 the synapses (or connections) in the infant brain multiply 20 fold, and develop 85% of the human brain (and that 95% of the brain is developed by age 4). This speed of development causes the brain to be acutely sensitive to environmental experience during the first 3 years of life. The charity’s reports and articles particularly emphasise the importance of warm, nurturing, loving parenting in the first 18 months of life when the emotional brain is largely created, and juxtaposes this with statistics showing that age 0-1 is the peak age for physical abuse in the UK. The people most likely to die a violent death are babies under 1 year old, who are four times more likely to be killed than the average person in England and Wales.〔http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/MediaCentre/MediaResources/facts_and_figures_wda33295.html〕 Although there are many causes of violence, WAVE’s research conclusion is that child abuse, neglect and witnessing domestic violence are fundamental contributors to later antisocial, aggressive or violent behaviour because: * Patterns of behaviour are adopted very early in life. Many children who are abused or neglected learn that the world is a cruel place and act accordingly. * Antisocial behaviour is difficult to change – once adopted, this character trait is strong and often leads to adult violence. * This pattern of violence is then repeated within the family as the antisocial / aggressive adults go on to raise their own children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WAVE Trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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