Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse in the Emergency Department: Clinical and Behavioral Indicators

Behavioral and Psychological Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse in Clinical Practice

This paper discusses the behavioral and psychological assessment of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in clinical practice. Following a brief introduction regarding definition and etiology of CSA and discussion on issues of behavioral/ psychological consequences of CSA, the paper reviews the various approaches towards behavioral/psychological assessment in establishing validity of alleged CSA. The short...

Prediction of child abuse risk from emergency department use.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether pre-abuse rates and patterns of emergency department (ED) visits between children with supported child abuse and age-matched control subjects are useful markers for abuse risk. STUDY DESIGN A population-based case-control study using probabilistic linkage of four statewide data sets. Cases were abused children <13 years of age, identified between January 1, 2002, ...

[Child sexual abuse: municipal Health Department measures to ensure care].

The article analyzes the activities of the Municipal Department of Health and Civil Defense of Rio de Janeiro in ensuring specialized care for the population of children and adolescents who are the victims of sexual violence. This is a case study that used the method of analysis of content of eight interviews with mid-level managers of the aforesaid Department. It was revealed that despite the ...

Child abuse dimensions with self body-image and sexual satisfaction

Childhood abuse has direct effect on body image So that the body image affects the some aspects of psychological which has a direct relationship with sexual satisfaction also has effect on sexual satisfaction indirectly The purpose of this research was to study childhood dimensions with self-body image and sexual satisfaction. This research is conducted as correlation-descriptive study. A sampl...

Child Sexual Abuse