Screening tools for child sexual abuse

Screening tools for child sexual abuse.

The medical diagnosis of child sexual abuse can be problematic; any opportunity to simplify, strengthen, or streamline the assessment process is desirable. Screening has been defined as the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations or other procedures which can be carried out rapidly with the goal of sorting out apparently well person...

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

14„child Sexual Abuse”

Sexual abuse is defined as the involvement in developmentally immature children or adolescents in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend, to which they are unable to give informed consent and that violate social taboos of family or other adult-child relationships. We present one of the more drastic and obvious cases of sexual abuse in adolescents – which has been observed in childh...