Child Sexual Abuse

This fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings.

Autorentext

Michael E. Lamb PhD is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and has written or edited approximately 50 books, including the first edition of this book.

Irit Hershkowitz is Professor Emerita of Social Work at the University of Haifa and has led research on interviewing reluctant children for over a decade.

Margaret Ellen Pipe is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the City University of New York and was the principal editor of the first edition of this book.

Inhalt

1. Child sexual abuse: Who, when, and what to tell? 2. Understanding child sexual abuse: Disclosures, delays, and denials 3. Challenges to identification and interviewing of suspected youth victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking 4. Truths and lies: Making sense of denials and recantations in sexual abuse cases 5. Historical cases: Consequence of delayed disclosure on criminal prosecutions 6. When allegations of child sexual abuse are false 7. Disclosures and forensic interviews in the context of online child sexual abuse 8. Disclosures and denials by young people suspected of sexual offences 9. Strategies to overcome the reluctance to disclose abuse: The Revised NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol 10. Risks and benefits of therapeutic interventions for non-disclosing suspected victims of abuse