NCJ Number
166772
Date Published
1997
Length
360 pages
Annotation
This volume contains resource materials on child sexual abuse that were part of a March 1997 national symposium on child sexual abuse in Huntsville, Alabama.
Abstract
Leaders and professionals in several disciplines dealing with child sexual abuse shared their experience and expertise at the symposium. Participants covered the importance of aligning with battered women to protect both mothers and children, childhood eating disorders as an indicator of family abuse, forensic interviews with child sexual abuse victims, and group treatment for young male victims of sexual assault. Participants also examined needs of adolescent mothers and associated past sexual abuse issues, effective therapy for teenage sexual abuse victims, the treatment of black child sexual abuse survivors, and supportive services for families who adopt abused children. In addition, participants addressed the medical evaluation of physical and sexual abuse, child physical abuse, vulnerabilities of disabled children, how to make courts safe for children, and effective advocacy strategies in child maltreatment cases. Finally, participants focused on effective investigative strategies in serious physical abuse and child homicide cases, forensic evaluation of sexually abused children, non-offensive treatment of non-offending parents, sex education for adolescent sex offenders, statutory rape, teenage pregnancy, stress management and burnout prevention, preparation and presentation of testimony in child sexual abuse cases, advanced techniques in sensory-based treatment, child molesters who abduct, acquaintance rape, and the importance of corroborating victim statements in child abuse investigations. References