Recovered memories of child sexual abuse: psychological, social, and legal perspectives on a contemporary mental health controversy. Sheila Taub (ed.). Charles C. Thomas Publisher Ltd., Springfield, Illinois, 1999. No. of pages 224. ISBN 0-398-07005-9. Price: $44.95 (hardback), $31.95 (paperback)

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

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Mental health policies on reporting child sexual abuse and physician-patient sexual relationships

World Psychiatry ◽

10.1002/j.2051-5545.2009.tb00210.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 45-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

DONNA E. STEWART ◽

ERIK VENOS ◽

IRAM J. ASHRAF

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexual Relationships ◽

Health Policies ◽

Physician Patient ◽

Mental Health Policies

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Recovered memories of child sexual abuse. Edited by S. Taub. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1999. Pp ix + 224. ISBN 0-398-07005-9 and 0-398-07006-7

Contemporary Hypnosis ◽

10.1002/ch.239 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 42-44

Author(s):

Peter L. N. Naish

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Recovered Memories

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Mental Health Providers and Child Sexual Abuse

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse ◽

10.1300/j070v02n04_02 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 19-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Wesley B. Crenshaw ◽

James W. Lichtenberg ◽

Patricia A. Bartell

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Mental Health Providers ◽

Health Providers

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Resilience to Child Sexual Abuse in Male College Students

Journal of Mental Health Counseling ◽

10.17744/mehc.39.2.05 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 149-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Elizabeth G. Graves ◽

L. DiAnne Borders ◽

Terry A. Ackerman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Modern Society ◽

Mental Health Counselors ◽

Male Survivors ◽

Recovery Processes ◽

Male College ◽

Effective Counseling ◽

Self Acceptance

Little is known about men's experiences in the aftermath of child sexual abuse (CSA). Consistent themes from qualitative studies were operationalized and tested for their impact on resilience. For the sample of college-enrolled men (n = 55), the themes of mattering and of traditional male attitudes were not related to resilience, but the theme of gender self-acceptance significantly predicted 23% of the variance in resilience scores. Importantly, the men's perceptions of the CSA events they experienced, whether they described these events as abusive or consensual, were not related to the men's resilience scores. The results indicated that effective counseling approaches to support men's recovery processes differ from those supporting women's recovery. These results suggest that mental health counselors should focus on encouraging male survivors' gender self-acceptance, exploring what it means to be a man in modern society, and examining points of connection with and disconnection from that cultural portrayal.

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