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The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. [PDF]

, 2001
Of all crimes against children, sexual abuse has arguably captured the greatest share of attention from child advocates, professionals, policymakers, and the general public.
Finkelhor, David, Jones, Lisa M.
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Evaluating Children’s Advocacy Centers’ Response to Child Sexual Abuse [PDF]

, 2008
Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) play an increasingly significant role in the response to child sexual abuse and other child maltreatment in the United States. First developed in the 1980s, CACs were designed to reduce the stress on child abuse victims
Cross, Theodore P, Crynes, Arthur, Davison, Karen, Jones, Lisa M, Kolko, David, Lippert, Tonya, Magnuson, Suzanne, Sczepanski, Joyce, Shadoin, Amy L, Simone, Monique, Sosnowski, Polly, Walsh, Wendy A.   +11 more
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Medical Institutions’ Response to Child Abuse: Survey across Japan

J, 2022
The number of child abuse cases has been increasing in Japan every year. Medical institutions face issues such as coordinating with welfare offices, child guidance centers, police, and other related agencies concerning child abuse, as well as ...
Eri Ishikawa, Shoichi Maeda, Eisuke Nakazawa, Akira Akabayashi   +3 more
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Safeguarding children in dentistry: 1. Child protection training, experience and practice of dental professionals with an interest in paediatric dentistry [PDF]

, 2009
* Few dental professionals with child protection training have experience of making referrals. * There is a wide gap in practice between recognising signs of child abuse and neglect and responding effectively.
A Lazenbatt, AL Warburton, AM Cairns, AM Cairns, C. Elcock, E Hendry, F Ramos-Gomez, J Harris, J Horwath, J Polnay, J Wynne, J. C. Harris, JD McDowell, JE Thomas, MD Saxe, MJ Bannon, MM Von Burg, N Parton, NM Kilpatrick, P. D. Sidebotham, R. R. Welbury, RR Welbury, S Manea, S Naidoo, SA Bsoul, SM Adair, V John   +26 more
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Forensic Significance of Skin Injury and Fracture Caused by Child Abuse [PDF]

Fayixue Zazhi, 2020
In recent years, cases of child abuse that result in injuries and death have occurred from time to time in China, and there may be more undetected child abuse cases.
CAO Zhe, HOU Xiao-ning, AN Zhi-yuan, et al.
doaj   +1 more source

The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

PLoS Medicine, 2012
Rosana Norman and colleagues conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the relationship between child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, and subsequent mental and physical health outcomes.
Rosana E Norman, Munkhtsetseg Byambaa, R. De, A. Butchart, James Scott, T. Vos   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Linking child maltreatment history with child abuse potential: Relative roles of maltreatment types [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2014
The independent roles of each childhood maltreatment type on child abuse potential in adults have been insufficiently explored and are inconsistent, with dissociation as one of the possible suggested mediators of intergenerational child abuse ...
Mitkovic-Voncina Marija, Lecic-Tosevski Dusica, Pejovic-Milovancevic Milica, Popovic-Deusic Smiljka   +3 more
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Use of Self-Figure Drawing as an Assessment Tool for Child Abuse: Differentiating between Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse

Children, 2022
Child abuse is a worldwide phenomenon with adverse short- and long-term mental and physical negative consequences, with a huge gap between the prevalence of child abuse and disclosure rates. The study aimed to examine and validate the self-figure drawing
Nisara Jaroenkajornkij, Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Bussakorn Binson   +2 more
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Risk Factors for Child Sexual Abuse Victimization: A Meta-Analytic Review

Psychological bulletin, 2019
Experiencing child sexual abuse (CSA) is a major public health problem with serious consequences for CSA victims. For effective assessment and (preventive) intervention, knowledge on risk factors and their effects is crucial.
M. Assink, C. E. van der Put, M. Meeuwsen, Nynke M de Jong, F. Oort, G. Stams, M. Hoeve   +6 more
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Emotional abuse of girls in Swaziland: prevalence, perpetrators, risk and protective factors and health outcomes [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Research on emotional child abuse in sub–Saharan Africa is scarce. Few studies thus far have examined prevalence, risk and protective factors for emotional child abuse or the associations between emotional abuse and girls’ health. Methods:
Dunne, Michael P., Elizalde, Aldo, Fry, Deborah, Ginindza, Choice, Maternowska, M. Catherine, Meinck, Franziska, Spreckelsen, Thees F., Wazny, Kerri   +7 more
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