Books published by IAC

This work, with a foreword by Maria de Belém Roseira and a preface by Dulce Rocha, aims to inform Parents, Health Professionals, Teachers and the general public about the instruments that protect children in the health area in Portugal. The six chapters present the laws and other legal provisions that, in relation to the Child, illustrate the Right to Health and Access to Health Services, Protection of Maternity, Paternity and Adoption, School Health, Child Victims of Abuse, Adolescents and Children and Young People with Disabilities.

Publication of the Minutes from the Meeting with the same title organized by the IAC at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in January 1996. More than 3 dozen contributions aided a diagnosis of the situation on Humanization in the field of child and young people care in Portuguese health services. It also contributed to dissemination of the European Charter for Children in Hospitals.

Summary of the Meeting, Lisbon, March 26, 2004.

This work includes the Directory of Portuguese Non-Governmental Organizations that combat the Disappearance and Sexual Exploitation of Children, the national report on these two issues, interviews with key people (PJ inspector, Public Prosecutor, High Authority for the Media), definitions related to the disappearance and sexual exploitation of children, as well as presentations at the European Conference on the two topics organized by the IAC on 9 October 2003.

It is the first edition of the entire existing Portuguese legislation on Children and a fundamental working tool for all those who deal with them. The work also includes the full transcript of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Several individuals introduce this collection of the entire existing Portuguese legislation on Children: the President of the Republic (opening), the Minister of Justice (presentation), the High Commissioner for Issues on the Promotion of Equality and the Family (preface) and the President of the IAC (introduction). The work includes the full transcript of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This revised and updated 3rd Edition coincides with the 25th anniversary of the IAC. The IAC hopes that the publication once again meets the expectations of professionals who are used to relying on the Guide, facilitating the exercise of functions as demanding as they are gratifying, ultimately seeking to deepen their knowledge, always bearing in mind greater security, which in turn leads to better performance.

IAC edition.

Through this book the Humanization sector of the IAC’s Child Care Services pays a posthumous tribute to one of its most distinguished members. Prof. Torrado da Silva was a Founding Partner of the IAC, a member of its Coordinating Council and of the Board of Directors. He contributed to the well-being of Children in different ways, namely with around 600 communications in national and foreign Congresses, more than 70 articles in scientific journals, as well as holding high positions in several institutions linked to Paediatrics.

The International Association of Toy Libraries (ITLA) promotes every three years and never on the same continent, a Conference that constitutes, worldwide, a moment of exchange of ideas, experiences and materials. Given the innovative nature of the toy library movement initiated by the IAC in our country, the IAC was entrusted with the responsibility of organizing this Conference. This work presents dozens of summaries of interventions on the experiences and reflections of the best Portuguese and world professionals.

This work brings together facts and illustrations from the life of Professor Maria de Lourdes Levy, dedicated to Medicine and Paediatrics, both as a teacher and doctor. The love with which she dedicated herself to social solidarity institutions, such as the IAC, testifies to her commitment to the social dissemination of issues related to Health and Education in Childhood. The collection of texts, photographs and documents, in addition to portraying such a full life, clearly demonstrates how much she has contributed to the cause of the Portuguese Child.

These Minutes are fruit of the Meeting on work with Nannies/Family Day Care Centers which was the first study and reflection meeting on this topic and also the first exchange of existing experiences.

At the turn of the year 2000, the challenges of sharing past and future, tradition and modernity, legacy and transformation, are increasing. The game and the toy, the practice and the theory of playful activity are an intrinsic part of these challenges.

It is intended to reflect on the importance of games and free time, considering the transformations of social life and decision-making necessary for the acquisition of a playful culture for citizens in the society of the future.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Children’s Literature Grand Prize, established to consecrate the literary unity and quality of work dedicated to children’s literature, was awarded, in the 1987/88 biennium, to António Torrado. At the award ceremony, the writer read out a communication in which he pays homage to the contribution of the writers who preceded him in the Grand Prix. It is the testimony by António Torrado that appears in this book edited by the IAC and which also represents a contribution to the retrospective evaluation of the Children’s Literature Meetings held from 1980 onwards.

The IAC, always at the forefront of humanization in the treatment of Children, publishes this useful and practical guide as a tool for the day to day of the operatives who are involved in the fight against pain in Paediatrics. This guide suggests methods for assessing, measuring and recording pain, as well as proposing therapeutic plans for pharmacological and non-pharmacological multimodal analgesia.

The denial of pain in the child is an ancestral habit and not yet abandoned. Countless testimonies and the procedures used by those who have the duty, if not professional at least ethical, to control pain prove it. It is our objective to carry out an informal assessment of current attitudes and behaviour towards pain in children and to seek consensus on the procedures to be adopted.

The texts that make up the collection “Cadernos da Actividade Lúdica” allow the dissemination of contributions from participants whose intervention has enriched conferences, round tables, meetings and other events on games, toys, toy libraries and outdoor play spaces, organized by the IAC’s Recreational Activity Sector. This volume includes texts by several renowned authors.

The texts that make up the “Cadernos da Actividade Lúdica” collection allow the dissemination of contributions from participants who have enriched, with their intervention, conferences, round tables, meetings and other events on games, toys, toy libraries and outdoor play spaces, organized by the sector of the IAC Playful Activity. This volume includes five texts by Graça Guedes, João Amado, José Veiga, Manuela Hasse and Jorge Crespo.

The Humanization sector of the IAC decided to compile and edit the minutes of the Meeting “Reflecting Practices to Improve Performance” held in Porto in November 1999, given the interest shown by all participants and taking into account the importance of the topics covered.

The themes chosen for this Meeting, although they have already been the subject of the previous reflection, continue to be of extreme relevance, which is why it is justified to continue with their in-depth study and debate.

Collection of drawings made by children/young people accompanied by the IAC-Projecto Rua sector. The vast majority of drawings were produced during leisure activities and others were conceived in other places, such as vacation spaces. Houses, animals and aspects of nature, along with the human figure, appear in many of the drawings and are wealth that belongs to the knowledge each child possesses and that, with this publication, the IAC helps to preserve.

Children’s audiobook whose aim is to promote debate and reflection on the Rights of the Child by children, parents and educators through short stories and poems written by several Portuguese writers: António Torrado, Inês de Barros Baptista, Inês Pupo, Mª Teresa M. Gonzalez, Luísa Ducla Soares, Raquel Palermo, José Jorge Letria, António Mota, Augusto Carlos, Rui Zink and José Fanha, with illustrations by Vera Pyrrait, voice by Pedro D’Orey and music by Ricardo Daniel and Tiago Barbosa.

This work aimed at parents, educators, teachers, students and other education professionals helps to make known the importance of toy libraries as spaces for culture and education, spaces that are an indispensable school complement and that are of vital importance in the education of the child. The author has supervised numerous courses on the organization of toy libraries at the main universities and training centers for educators in Spain, Portugal and Mexico.

Twenty professionals (paediatricians, judges, teachers, nurses, etc.) involved in the defense of the Child comment on the ten principles that are part of the Charter for Hospitalized Children, at the rate of two per principle. In this way, they contribute to making this document better known to all those who are interested in the well-being of the Child in general and the hospitalized Child in particular, helping them and their families to bear the pain of illness and separation.

This publication enumerates a set of games with stones, sticks, irons, bags, fabrics, etc., played from the North to the South of the country and which highlight one of the forms of playful expression of Portuguese culture. This book demonstrates that the promotion of children’s rights and play has been a pioneering concern of the IAC.

This book refers to the objectives, the various phases of the project, the new strategies and the methodologies applied in what was the only innovative project approved for Portugal by the European Commission, under the 3rd Programme to Combat Poverty.