Legal and Social Service Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer and Discussion of Relevant Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tisha R. A. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Relevant Research

Validity of a Short Measure of Child Sexual Abuse for Use in Adult Mental Health Surveys

1990 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bagley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Adult Mental Health

An 18-yr. follow-up of 49 children for whom presence or apparent absence of sexual abuse was independently verified by social service reports in childhood, indicated partial validity for a recently developed measure of sexual abuse. Of 19 subjects known to have been sexually abused in childhood, 74% recalled details of such abuse when young adults.

Preemployment and Volunteer Screening: Reducing the Risk of Child Sexual Abuse for Social Service Agencies

2003 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Martha K. Wilson ◽  
Barbara A. Beville
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Sexual Offender ◽  
Screening Procedure ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Screening Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Service Agencies

The authors present a model for preemployment and volunteer applicant screening that is based on their review of the literature concerning sexual offender profiles and propose that assessment of an agency's level of organizational risk is a key factor in the implementation and affordability of an appropriately thorough screening procedure. They identify levels of risk and suggest how to modify the screening model accordingly.

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

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.

Finkelhor's Precondition Model of child sexual abuse: A critique.

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Tony Ward ◽  
Stephen M. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse
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