Treating Victims of Child Sexual Abuse

Autobiographical memory specificity in child sexual abuse victims.

The present study examined the specificity of autobiographical memory in adolescents and adults with versus without child sexual abuse (CSA) histories. Eighty-five participants, approximately half of whom per age group had experienced CSA, were tested on the autobiographical memory interview. Individual difference measures, including those for trauma-related psychopathology, were also administe...

Identifying the pathways to suicide in child sexual abuse victims.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 February 2010 192 4 182-183 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials a record of experiencing child sexual abuse had a r suicide of 18.09 (14.20 for males and 40.38 for relative risk of accidental fatal drug overdose was 88. and 38.46 for males. Such relative risks are high an order of magnitude as those that link cigare...

Child Victims of Sexual Assault

This Memorandum is being sent by Sir Basil to several organisations asking for comments and suggestions. The Council of the N.A.M.H. will be considering it shortly. It may be remembered that in the evidence given by the Association to the Ingleby Committee (in April 1958), recommendations very much on those proposed in the Memorandum were included and reference was made to the new procedure in ...

[Children who are victims of sexual abuse].

Child Sexual Abuse