Child sexual abuse : issues and challenges / Megan J. Smith, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Megan J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse.

Sexually abused children--Counseling of.

Sexually abused children.

Adult child sexual abuse victims--Counseling of.

Adult child sexual abuse victims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Accurate statistics on the prevalence of child and adolescent sexual abuse are difficult to collect because of problems of underreporting and the lack of one definition of what constitutes such abuse. However, there is general agreement among mental health and child protection professionals that child sexual abuse is not uncommon and is a serious problem which has become more widely spread with the internet. This book presents recent and significant research from around the globe.

Contents:

Intro

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Expert Commentary PERSPECTIVES ON AWARENESS WORK IN THE FIELD OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN DIGITAL MEDIA

INTRODUCTION

TERMINOLOGY

SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN DIGITAL MEDIA

PROJECT GETTING INVOLVED: AN EXAMPLE OF CREATING AWARENESS BY THE USE OF PROJECT BASED TEACHING

CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN USING EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR AWARENESS WORK

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

Short Communication CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE BOTSWANA PERSPECTIVES

ABSTRACT

CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL ABUSE ON THE VICTIM

CONCEPT OF SEXUAL ABUSE

LITERATURE REVIEW

Methodology

The Resource Centres

The Child-line

The SOS Village

CHILHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE REPORTS

Rape

Defilement

Incest

NATURE OF INTERVENTIONS PROVIDED

The Law Enforcement Agency

Resource Centres

SERVICES PROVIDED

RECOMMENDATIONS

RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES

Chapter 1 CREDIBLE BUT INACCURATE: CAN CRITERION-BASED CONTENT ANALYSIS (CBCA) DISTINGUISH TRUE AND FALSE MEMORIES?

AN OVERVIEW OF CBCA

RESEARCH SUPPORTING CBCA

Field Studies

Laboratory Analogue Studies

STATEMENT VALIDITY: CREDIBILITY VERSUS ACCURACY

Characteristics of False Memories and the CBCA Criteria

CBCA AND FALSE MEMORIES

Chapter 2 DEVELOPMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CHILDHOOD

REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND MATURATIONAL TIMING

SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT

WHY IS CSA EXPERIENCED AS TRAUMA?

Paternity Uncertainty and Men's Mate Preferences

EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF CSA FROM A LIFE-HISTORY PERSPECTIVE.

PROTECTIVE FACTORS

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH ON CSA

FUTURE RESEARCH ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT OF CSA

Chapter 3 CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE PREDICTS WOMEN'S UNWANTED SEXUAL INTERACTIONS AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION IN ADULT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND ADULT SEXUAL SATISFACTION

UNWANTED SEXUAL INTERACTIONS

CSA AND UNWANTED SEXUAL EXPERIENCES: ADDITIVE EFFECTS ON SEXUAL FUNCTIONING?

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL FUNCTIONING IN A ROMANTIC CONTEXT

METHOD

Participants

Measures

Childhood Sexual Abuse

Procedure

RESULTS

Unwanted Sexual Interactions

General Relationship Quality

Gender-Based Dating Beliefs

Chapter 4 FACILITATING TRANSITION VIA GROUP WORK WITH SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE*

BACKGROUND

BRINGING THE GROUP TOGETHER

USING COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVE GROUP WORK

THE 'LOOK, THINK, ACT' PROCESS HELPS TO EXPLORE NARRATIVE CONTENT

What is 'Look, Think, Act?'

Teaching the 'Look, Think, Act' Process

Looking

Thinking

Actioning

The 'Look, Think, Act' Process and Behaviour

THE GROUP MEETINGS

The Physical Space

Developing a Safe Space in the Group

Developing a Climate of Trust

Safe Disclosure in the Group

About your Facilitation

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Chapter 5 METHODS FOR INCORPORATING MEASURES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE INTO GENETICALLY INFORMATIVE STUDIES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

1. Background

2. Why Study Childhood Sexual Abuse?

3. Why Use a "Genetically Informative" Approach?

CSA IN FAMILY AND TWIN STUDIES

1. Heritability and Environment

2. Methods for the Study of Covariance

2.1. Bivariate Model

2.2. Multiple-group Twin Model.

2.3. Case-control Twin Model

2.4. Gene-environment Interactions

CSA IN GENE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

CHALLENGES AND SOME FUTURE DIRECTIONS

IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 6 CULTURE AND THE 'HIDDEN ARM' IN SEXUAL ABUSE OF PUPILS BY TEACHERS IN ZIMBABWE

Objectives

Method

Results

Conclusion

CULTURAL BELIEFS AND CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE BY TEACHERS

Sample

Ethical Issues

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

Case Study 3

Case Study 4

Case Study 5

DISCUSSION

Perpetrators Connive with the Victim's Parents

Chapter 7 CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE AND SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS: DISENTANGLING A COMPLEX ASSOCIATION

1. CSA AND SUBSTANCE USE OUTCOMES

1.1 What we Know from Clinical and High-risk Populations

1.2. Evidence from Community-based Studies

1.3. Additional Factors Influencing the Link between CSA and Substance Use Outcomes

RISK FACTORS COMMON TO CSA AND SUBSTANCE-RELATED PROBLEMS

2. A Direct or Indirect Relationship?

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES

3. Epidemiological Studies Using Measured Covariates

4. Co-twin Designs

Chapter 8 THE NEGLECT OF CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN STUDIES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: A COMMENTARY

CASE EXAMPLE

Chapter 9 ENDOMETRIOSIS AND SEXUAL ABUSE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. WHAT IS ENDOMETRIOSIS

III. HOW DOES ENDOMETRIOSIS DEVELOP?

IV. RELATIONS BETWEEN PELVIC PAINS AND LESIONS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS

V. OUR OBSERVATIONS

VI. HOW SEXUAL ABUSE AND OTHER EMOTIONAL TRAUMATISMS CAN LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOMETRIOSIS?

Do Endometriotic Women Differ from Others?

VII. DISCUSSION

VIII. TREATMENT OR THERAPEUTIC CONSEQUENCES

REFERENCES.

Chapter 10 SEXUAL AGGRESSIONS AMONGST UNDERAGED: VULNERABILITIES, RISK FACTORS, SIGNS OF CALLING FOR HELP

VULNERABILITY AND TRAUMA

SYNTHETIC REVIEW OF THE QUESTION (CLINICAL ASPECTS)

STUDY 1

STUDY 2

Results' Synthesis

Comments and Analyses

Chapter 11 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS: CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

RESEARCH ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS AND IMPLICATIONS

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND IMPLICATIONS: THE ZIMBABWEAN SCHOOL CONTEXT

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND IMPLICATIONS: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

Chapter 12 PERI-TRAUMATIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AMONGST SEXUALLY ABUSED MINORS

1. Objective of the Study

1.1. Main Hypothesis

2. Patients and Method

2.1. Patients

2.2. Method

3. Results

3.1. A Symptomatology of Cognitive Efficiency

3.2. Behavioural and Conduct Disorders

3.3. A Phobic Domination

3.4. A Somatoform Aspect

4. Conclusion

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Main Problem

1.2. Vulnerability and Peri-traumatic Stakes

1.3. Aim of the Research

2. NOTIONAL AND EPISTEMICAL FIELDS

2.1. Protocol

2.1.1. Objective of the Research

2.1.2. Sample

2.1.3. The Results

2.2. Peri-traumatic Vulnerabilities

2.2.1. The Factual Vulnerabilities: A Post Immediate Syndrome?

2.2.2. Comments

2.2.3. Pre-Factual Vulnerabilities: A "Victimization" Process?

2.2.4. Comments

2.2.5. Post Factual Vulnerabilities: An Infantile Traumatic Neurosis?

2.2.6. Comments

3. DISCUSSION

3.1. Sexual Traumatism and Cognitive Process

3.2. Sexual Traumatism and Behavioural and Conduct Disorders (BCD)

3.3. Sexual Trauma and Body Image.

3.4. Synthesis of Children's Sexual Peri-traumatic Clinical Forms

4. PERI-TRAUMATIC PHOBIA AND PARANOID ANXIETY

5. CONCLUSION

Chapter 13 CRIMINAL CAREERS OF DUTCH ADOLESCENT SEX OFFENDERS

A CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

1. TYPES OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS

2. CRIMINAL CAREERS AND OFFENDER TYPES

3. USING CRIMINAL CAREERS TO TYPIFY SEXUAL OFFENDERS

4. MAPPING CRIMINAL CAREERS OF JUVENILE SEX OFFENDERS USING POLICE DATA

5. PERSONAL AND CRIMINAL CAREER CHARACTERISTICS OF SEX DELINQUENTS REGISTERED IN 1996

5.1. Age in 1996

5.2. First Offenders and Recidivists in 1996

5.3. Individual Characteristics

5.4. Criminal Career Characteristics in 1996

5.5. Recidivism after 1996

5.6. Link between Sexual and Non-sexual Crimes

6. CONCLUSION

INDEX

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2013).

ISBN:

1-60692-489-3

OCLC:

265035869