Our study aims to analyze the relationships between intervention and prevention in a child protection system which is considered to be new (the fundamental and secondary legislation that supports it is effective as of January 1st 2005) and its reconsideration from the perspective of the child’s resilience (assisted or unassisted). The study highlights the fact that the current system of child protection in Romania contains within itself the premises of continuation of maltreatment of the child on whom a measure of special protection has been adopted. At the moment, this system does not have the resources to allow an approach centred on the resources belonging to the individual and to the community in order to overcome the traumatising events, without highlighting through the re-traumatizing experience created by separating the child in difficulty from the hostile environment.