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Assessing Child Sexual Abuse
Resources on identifying, screening, interviewing, and assessing a child or youth for possible sexual abuse.
Art Therapy With Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Lost for Words
Murphy (Ed.) (2001)
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Describes the benefits of art therapy for revealing a child's perceptions of his or her abuse and explains its use in assessment.
Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: Multidisciplinary Collaborations - An Internet Resource for Forensic Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse Cases
University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education (2001)
Compilation of best-practice methods and supporting research to assist in the objective, accurate, and skilled investigation of alleged child sexual abuse incidents.
Critical Issues in the Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse
Babiker & Herbert
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 1(4), 1998
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Explores the feasibility of using standardized psychometric methods that are less intrusive, and therefore less damaging to children and their families, in the initial stages of an investigation of child sexual abuse.
The Diagnostic Utility of Sexual Behavior Problems in Diagnosing Sexual Abuse in a Forensic Child Abuse Evaluation Clinic
Drach, Wientzen, & Ricci
Child Abuse and Neglect, 25(4), 2001
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This study found no significant relationship between a diagnosis of sexual abuse and the presence or absence of sexual behavior problems, suggesting that community professionals should use caution in relying on sexual behavior problems as a diagnostic indicator of abuse.
The Evaluation of Sexual Abuse in Children
Kellogg & American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect
Pediatrics, 116(2), 2005
Outlines the medical assessment of suspected sexual abuse with respect to obtaining a history, physical examination, and appropriate laboratory data.
An Investigation of the Clinical Use of the House-Tree-Person Projective Drawings in the Psychological Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse
Palmer, Farrar, Valle, Ghahary, Panella, & DeGraw
Child Maltreatment, 5(2), 2000
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Examines the validity of the House-Tree-Person (HTP) projective drawing, a widely used diagnostic tool in the assessment of child sexual abuse
Medical Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse: A Practical Guide
Finkel & Giardino (Eds.) (2002)
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Provides an overview of procedures and guidelines for medical evaluations in cases of suspected child sexual abuse.
Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families
Friedrich (2002)
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Approaches for assessing victims of sexual abuse and their families in the context of attachment, behavioral problems, and self-perception. Includes interview questions and checklists for assessing parent-child interaction, family functioning, the marital relationship, safety, risk factors, and adolescent sexual behavior.
Sexual Knowledge and Emotional Reaction as Indicators of Sexual Abuse in Young Children: Theory and Research Challenges
Brilleslijper-Kater, Friedrich, & Corwin
Child Abuse and Neglect, 28(10), 2004
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Briefly summarizes the difficulty of validating sexual abuse allegations made by preschool children and presents a case for an indirect assessment strategy through the assessment of sexual knowledge.
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