Emotional Language Used by Victims of Alleged Sexual Abuse During Forensic Investigation.

abstract：:This study conducted an exploratory factor analysis and initial validation of Ruscio's (2001) parenting attitudes questionnaire, which assessed parenting concerns among child sexual abuse survivors. Child sexual abuse survivor mothers (N = 60) reported on their abuse experiences and completed the parenting attitudes q...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Allbaugh LJ,O'Dougherty Wright M,Atkins Seltmann L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a robust predictor of trauma symptoms. Past research has identified many correlates of trauma symptoms following disclosure of CSA. Theory suggests that loss of social contact may be another important contributor to adolescents' trauma symptoms following CSA. A clinical sample of 166 adoles...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Bi S,Rancher C,Johnson E,Cook K,McDonald R,Jouriles EN

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined 58 sexually abused children referred for clinical psychological services in 1999 in Hong Kong and compared the characteristics and disclosure patterns between those with multiple incidents of abuse and those with single incident. The former group was more likely to have been abused by a family memb...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Ma EY,Yau DC,Ng WW,Tong SL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While recent research has established the abuse and victimization histories of youth who engage in sexually abusive behavior, there is still debate regarding the significance of trauma and abuse as developmental antecedents to sexual offending in adolescence. Moreover, research has not conclusively identified the type...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Dillard R,Beaujolais B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child sexual abuse is endemic in South Africa, driven by high levels of gender-based violence and underscored by structural and social factors. This article aims to develop an understanding of the process of disclosure in a sample of female children and their caregivers. In-depth semistructured interviews were conduct...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Mathews S,Hendricks N,Abrahams N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of child sexual abuse is complicated, challenging, and highly necessary as sexual abuse of children and youth represents an extensive problem across the world. This article reviews the existing preventive interventions targeting children, parents, and professionals. An alternative way of organizing the chil...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Zeuthen K,Hagelskjær M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated self-harming behaviors in 149 female adolescent victims of sexual abuse, first, by determining the rates of nine types of self-mutilating behavior at intake and nine months later and, second, by investigating comorbidity of clinical correlates associated with these behaviors. The adolescents we...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Cyr M,McDuff P,Wright J,Thériault C,Cinq-Mars C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys under the age of 18 will be the victim of child sexual abuse. As adults, these individuals are more likely to report myriad mental illnesses including depression. Testing the hypothesis that having children would moderate the depressive effects of child sexual abuse, the authors us...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Zeglin RJ,DeRaedt MR,Lanthier RP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to reliability problems, use of retrospective measurement to assess child sexual abuse has long concerned researchers. Possible psychosocial causes of these reliability issues-including problem avoidance-have not been thoroughly studied. We tested the reliability of retrospective child sexual abuse measurement in ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Okeke NL,Wilkinson AV,Roberts RE

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allegations of child sexual abuse (CSA) across various contexts have often been denied or ignored by a multitude of people, including those who do not personally know the alleged perpetrators or victims. The lack of belief of children's CSA reports is problematic, as this may affect the child's adjustment, the consequ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Alcantara R,Shortway KM,Prempeh BA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tools to assess the risk of becoming a victim of child sexual exploitation (CSE) have been developed by UK CSE practitioners based on their professional experiences, with little evidence underpinning their development, and no evaluation/validation. Little is known about how they are used in practice. This paper summar...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Franklin A,Brown S,Brady G

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of abuse and parental characteristics on attributional content and determine the relative contribution of different attributions of blame in predicting psychological symptomatology among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. One hundred eighty-three female un...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Zinzow H,Seth P,Jackson J,Niehaus A,Fitzgerald M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much has been written about the role of therapists in children's recovery from child sexual abuse, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of nonoffending parents. This study investigated the work of a team of therapists who sometimes included such parents in therapy sessions with children. The ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Hill A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research concerning the treatment of sexual offenders has generally focused on the treatment of adult offenders. The effectiveness of treatments for male adolescent sexual offenders (N = 644) was assessed in a meta-analysis of 10 studies. Overall, the results were surprisingly encouraging, suggesting that treatments f...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Walker DF,McGovern SK,Poey EL,Otis KE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study used publicly available data on post-traumatic stress disorder in a sample of the Australian population with a history of sexual abuse to demonstrate how this evidence can inform economic analyses. The 2007 Australian Mental Health Survey revealed that 8.3% of 993 adolescents experienced childhood sexual abu...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Gospodarevskaya E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual abuse is associated with a host of negative repercussions in adolescence. Yet the possible mechanisms linking sexual abuse and negative outcomes are understudied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among self-blame, shame, coping strategies, posttraumatic stress disorder, depressive ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Alix S,Cossette L,Hébert M,Cyr M,Frappier JY

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Girls in India continue to be sexually abused/exploited under the veil of traditional practices such as Devadasi dedication despite the existence of legislation meant to protect them from child sexual abuse. This study recounts the experiences of 30 Devadasi girls who were dedicated, initiated into sexual activity, an...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Wilson B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was designed to determine whether there is support for the cycle of abuse theory among child molesters. A group of 147 sex offenders on probation were used in this study. The victims of 32 of these offenders were under the age of 10, and 19 of these offenders reported a history of childhood sexual ab...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Coxe R,Holmes W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent empirical research has shown that children with sexual behavior problems and adolescents who offend sexually are diverse populations consisting of several subtypes (Hall, Mathews, & Pearce, 2002; Pithers, Gray, Busconi, & Houchens, 1998; Worling, 2001). This article reviews the descriptive and empirical researc...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Rasmussen LA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality traits are considered as an important aspect in the assessment of child sex offenders (CSOs). The current study sought to elucidate the association between neuroticism, psychopathy, and abusive behavior in low risk CSOs. 43 pedophilic CSOs and 21 controls (CTLs) completed the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revi...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Stoll CB,Boillat C,Pflueger MO,Graf M,Rosburg T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual misconduct by school staff, which we refer to as educator sexual misconduct (ESM), is a serious and damaging violation of the trust that parents and students put in the educational system. After reviewing the prevalence and consequences of ESM for all parties involved, the authors propose standards of practice ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Wurtele SK,Mathews B,Kenny MC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the aims of this research was to develop an understanding of the role mothers were perceived to play during the process of disclosure of child sexual abuse. Using narrative inquiry methodology, face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 men and women who had an early sexual experience. Even though ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Hunter SV

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present literature exploring neuropsychological characteristics of sexually abusive youth is lacking, especially with regard to females and youth with low intellectual functioning. Moreover, although areas of neuropsychological functioning have been researched in this population, findings are vastly inconsistent and c...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Karsten TM,Dempsey R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the behavior of convicted offenders who had approached profiles of boys and girls online for offline sexual encounters. A detailed coding scheme was designed to code and analyze offenders' grooming behaviors in transcripts of conversational interactions between convicted offenders and 52 voluntee...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： van Gijn-Grosvenor EL,Lamb ME

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This pilot study assessed the performance of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC) in correctly classifying the presence or absence of PTSD, as determined by the Diagnostic Interview for children and Adolescents-Parent (DICA-P). Participants included 34 children, ages 4 to 12, referred for outpatient...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Pollio ES,Glover-Orr LE,Wherry JN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This exploratory study compared juveniles who sexually offend to nonoffending juveniles in their capacities to behaviorally and neurologically regulate, or reappraise, negative emotions. Participants were 39 juvenile males, including 10 healthy, nonoffending control subjects and 29 juveniles who sexually offend, compr...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Jones S,Joyal CC,Cisler JM,Bai S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though hallucinations traditionally have been conceptualized as a central feature of psychosis, some hallucinations may be dissociative, with dissociation potentially contributing to hallucinations. Childhood trauma has been linked with dissociation and hallucinations. Betrayal trauma theory distinguishes abusive expe...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Gómez JM,Freyd JJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional, case control study examines the association between child sexual abuse and interpersonal and intrapersonal outcomes among 54 adolescents, examining specific clinical measures (depression, anxiety, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress disorder, attachment patterns, self-esteem, self-disclosure, ...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Tocker L,Ben-Amitay G,Horesh-Reinman N,Lask M,Toren P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal support and abuse severity are often considered to be vital factors in predicting children's functioning following childhood sexual abuse (CSA); however, much of the prior research has examined support and abuse severity as main effects, without consideration of how these factors may interrelate to predict ch...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Wamser-Nanney R,Sager JC,Campbell CL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses what, if any, psychotherapeutic interventions should be provided to meet the emotional and clinical needs of alleged child victims of sexual abuse while they await judicial determinations from the family, dependency, or criminal courts. The discussion emphasizes that to minimize iatrogenic outco...

journal_title：Journal of child sexual abuse

authors： Kuehnle K,Connell M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00