Child sexual abuse [[electronic resource] ] : issues and challenges / / Megan J. Smith, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813092903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2008
• ISBN: 1-60692-489-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithMegan J
• Disciplina: 362.76
• Soggetti: Child sexual abuse; Sexually abused children - Counseling of; Adult child sexual abuse victims - Counseling of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Expert Commentary PERSPECTIVES ON AWARENESS WORK IN THE FIELD OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN DIGITAL MEDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- TERMINOLOGY -- SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN DIGITAL MEDIA -- PROJECT GETTING INVOLVED: AN EXAMPLE OF CREATING AWARENESS BY THE USE OF PROJECT BASED TEACHING -- CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN USING EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR AWARENESS WORK -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Short Communication CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE BOTSWANA PERSPECTIVES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL ABUSE ON THE VICTIM -- CONCEPT OF SEXUAL ABUSE -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Methodology -- The Resource Centres -- The Child-line -- The SOS Village -- CHILHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE REPORTS -- Rape -- Defilement -- Incest -- NATURE OF INTERVENTIONS PROVIDED -- The Law Enforcement Agency -- Resource Centres -- SERVICES PROVIDED -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES -- Chapter 1 CREDIBLE BUT INACCURATE: CAN CRITERION-BASED CONTENT ANALYSIS (CBCA) DISTINGUISH TRUE AND FALSE MEMORIES? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OVERVIEW OF CBCA -- RESEARCH ; SUPPORTING CBCA -- Field Studies -- Laboratory Analogue Studies -- STATEMENT VALIDITY: CREDIBILITY VERSUS ACCURACY -- Characteristics of False Memories and the CBCA Criteria -- CBCA AND FALSE MEMORIES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 DEVELOPMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE -- ABSTRACT -- EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CHILDHOOD -- REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT -- PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND MATURATIONAL TIMING -- SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT -- WHY IS CSA EXPERIENCED AS TRAUMA? -- Paternity Uncertainty and Men's Mate Preferences -- EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF CSA FROM A LIFE-HISTORY PERSPECTIVE.; PROTECTIVE FACTORS -- PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH ON CSA -- FUTURE RESEARCH ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT OF CSA -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE PREDICTS WOMEN'S UNWANTED SEXUAL INTERACTIONS AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION IN ADULT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND ADULT SEXUAL SATISFACTION -- UNWANTED SEXUAL INTERACTIONS -- CSA AND UNWANTED SEXUAL EXPERIENCES: ADDITIVE EFFECTS ON SEXUAL FUNCTIONING? -- POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL FUNCTIONING IN A ROMANTIC CONTEXT -- METHOD -- Participants -- Measures -- Childhood Sexual Abuse -- Procedure -- RESULTS -- Unwanted Sexual Interactions -- General Relationship Quality -- Gender-Based Dating Beliefs -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 FACILITATING TRANSITION VIA GROUP WORK WITH SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE* -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- BRINGING THE GROUP TOGETHER -- USING COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVE GROUP WORK -- THE 'LOOK, THINK, ACT' PROCESS HELPS TO EXPLORE NARRATIVE CONTENT -- What is 'Look, Think, Act?' -- Teaching the 'Look, Think, Act' Process -- Looking -- Thinking -- Actioning -- The 'Look, Think, Act' Process and Behaviour -- THE GROUP MEETINGS -- The Physical Space -- Developing a Safe Space in the Group -- Developing a Climate of Trust -- Safe Disclosure in the Group -- About your Facilitation -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 METHODS FOR INCORPORATING MEASURES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE INTO GENETICALLY INFORMATIVE STUDIES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Background -- 2. Why Study Childhood Sexual Abuse? -- 3. Why Use a "Genetically Informative" Approach? -- CSA IN FAMILY AND TWIN STUDIES -- 1. Heritability and Environment -- 2. Methods for the Study of Covariance -- 2.1. Bivariate Model -- 2.2. Multiple-group Twin Model.; 2.3. Case-control Twin Model -- 2.4. Gene-environment Interactions -- CSA IN GENE ASSOCIATION STUDIES -- CHALLENGES AND SOME FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 CULTURE AND THE 'HIDDEN ARM' IN SEXUAL ABUSE OF PUPILS BY TEACHERS IN ZIMBABWE -- ABSTRACT -- Objectives -- Method -- Results -- Conclusion -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURAL BELIEFS AND CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE BY TEACHERS -- METHOD -- Sample -- Procedure -- Ethical Issues -- RESULTS -- Case Study 1 -- Case Study 2 -- Case Study 3 -- Case Study 4 -- Case Study 5 -- DISCUSSION -- Perpetrators Connive with the Victim's Parents -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE AND SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS: DISENTANGLING A COMPLEX ASSOCIATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CSA AND SUBSTANCE USE OUTCOMES -- 1.1 What we Know from Clinical and High-risk Populations -- 1.2. Evidence from Community-based Studies -- 1.3. ; Additional Factors Influencing the Link between CSA and Substance Use Outcomes -- RISK FACTORS COMMON TO CSA AND SUBSTANCE-RELATED PROBLEMS -- 2. A Direct or Indirect Relationship? -- METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 3. Epidemiological Studies Using Measured Covariates -- 4. Co-twin Designs -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 THE NEGLECT OF CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN STUDIES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: A COMMENTARY -- ABSTRACT -- CASE EXAMPLE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 ENDOMETRIOSIS AND SEXUAL ABUSE -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. WHAT IS ENDOMETRIOSIS -- III. HOW DOES ENDOMETRIOSIS DEVELOP? -- IV. RELATIONS BETWEEN PELVIC PAINS AND LESIONS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS -- V. OUR OBSERVATIONS -- VI. HOW SEXUAL ABUSE AND OTHER EMOTIONAL TRAUMATISMS CAN LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOMETRIOSIS? -- Do Endometriotic Women Differ from Others? -- VII. DISCUSSION -- VIII. TREATMENT OR THERAPEUTIC CONSEQUENCES -- REFERENCES.; Chapter 10 SEXUAL AGGRESSIONS AMONGST UNDERAGED: VULNERABILITIES, RISK FACTORS, SIGNS OF CALLING FOR HELP -- VULNERABILITY AND TRAUMA -- SYNTHETIC REVIEW OF THE QUESTION (CLINICAL ASPECTS) -- STUDY 1 -- Method -- Results -- STUDY 2 -- Method -- Results -- Results' Synthesis -- Comments and Analyses -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS: CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- INTRODUCTION -- RESEARCH ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS AND IMPLICATIONS -- CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND IMPLICATIONS: THE ZIMBABWEAN SCHOOL CONTEXT -- CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND IMPLICATIONS: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 PERI-TRAUMATIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AMONGST SEXUALLY ABUSED MINORS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Objective of the Study -- 1.1. Main Hypothesis -- 2. Patients and Method -- 2.1. Patients -- 2.2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1. A Symptomatology of Cognitive Efficiency -- 3.2. Behavioural and Conduct Disorders -- 3.3. A Phobic Domination -- 3.4. A Somatoform Aspect -- 4. Conclusion -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Main Problem -- 1.2. Vulnerability and Peri-traumatic Stakes -- 1.3. Aim of the Research -- 2. NOTIONAL AND EPISTEMICAL FIELDS -- 2.1. Protocol -- 2.1.1. Objective of the Research -- 2.1.2. Sample -- 2.1.3. The Results -- 2.2. Peri-traumatic Vulnerabilities -- 2.2.1. The Factual Vulnerabilities: A Post Immediate Syndrome? -- 2.2.2. Comments -- 2.2.3. Pre-Factual Vulnerabilities: A "Victimization" Process? -- 2.2.4. Comments -- 2.2.5. Post Factual Vulnerabilities: An Infantile Traumatic Neurosis? -- 2.2.6. Comments -- 3. DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Sexual Traumatism and Cognitive Process -- 3.2. Sexual Traumatism and Behavioural and Conduct Disorders (BCD) -- 3.3. Sexual Trauma and Body Image.; 3.4. Synthesis of Children's Sexual Peri-traumatic Clinical Forms -- 4. PERI-TRAUMATIC PHOBIA AND PARANOID ANXIETY -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 CRIMINAL CAREERS OF DUTCH ADOLESCENT SEX OFFENDERS -- A CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. TYPES OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS -- 2. CRIMINAL CAREERS AND OFFENDER TYPES -- 3. USING CRIMINAL CAREERS TO TYPIFY SEXUAL OFFENDERS -- 4. MAPPING CRIMINAL CAREERS OF JUVENILE SEX OFFENDERS USING POLICE DATA -- 5. PERSONAL AND CRIMINAL CAREER CHARACTERISTICS OF SEX DELINQUENTS REGISTERED IN 1996 -- 5.1. Age in 1996 -- 5.2. First Offenders and Recidivists in 1996 -- 5.3. Individual Characteristics -- 5.4. Criminal Career Characteristics in 1996 -- 5.5. Recidivism after 1996 -- 5.6. Link ; between Sexual and Non-sexual Crimes -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.