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Risk and Protective Factors for Physical and Sexual Abuse of Children and Adolescents in Africa

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015
There is now conclusive evidence of the major and long-lasting negative effects of physical and sexual abuse on children. Within Africa, studies consistently report high rates of child abuse, with prevalence as high as 64%.
F. Meinck, L. Cluver, M. Boyes, Elsinah L Mhlongo   +3 more
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Adult Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015
Victims of childhood sexual abuse carry the experience of abuse into adulthood. One of the dilemmas victims face during adulthood is the decision to disclose or conceal the abuse.
Dafna Tener, Sharon B. Murphy
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Sexual Abuse of Boys

Pediatrics, 1986
To determine factors in the sexual abuse of boys, we reviewed medical records of 140 boys who were seen for evaluation at the Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego from 1979 to March 1984. Many of the boys were seen by one of the authors. Boys represented 9% of the 1,748 sexual abuse victims. The incidence in males increasd from 7% in 1979
Patricia Dunklee, Mary J. Spencer
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Child Sexual Abuse and the Media: A Literature Review

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2015
The media play an important role in practice, policy, and public perception of child sexual abuse, in part by the way in which news stories are framed. Child sexual abuse media coverage over the past 50 years can be divided into five time periods based ...
J. Weatherred
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Ten-year research update review: child sexual abuse.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2003
OBJECTIVE To provide clinicians with current information on prevalence, risk factors, outcomes, treatment, and prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA). To examine the best-documented examples of psychopathology attributable to CSA.
F. Putnam
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Stop It Now! A Pilot Study Into the Limits and Benefits of a Free Helpline Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2015
Stop It Now! aims to prevent child sexual abuse using a free anonymous helpline. It provides information, advice, and guidance to anyone concerned about child sexual abuse.
J. V. Horn, M. Eisenberg, C. Nicholls, J. Mulder, S. Webster, Caroline Paskell, Ashley Brown, J. Stam, J. Kerr, Natalie Jago   +9 more
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Significance, Nature, and Direction of the Association Between Child Sexual Abuse and Conduct Disorder

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015
To elucidate the significance, nature, and direction of the potential relationship between child sexual abuse and conduct disorder, all the pertinent studies were reviewed. Ten databases were searched.
Roberto Maniglio
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Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Anxiety, and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Self-Capacities

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2015
Research indicates that child sexual abuse produces lasting alterations in interpersonal relatedness, identity, and affect regulation, often referred to as self-capacity disturbance.
Noémie Bigras, N. Godbout, J. Briere
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The traumatic impact of child sexual abuse: a conceptualization.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1985
A framework is proposed for a more systematic understanding of the effects of child sexual abuse. Four traumagenic dynamics--traumatic sexualization, betrayal, stigmatization, and powerlessness--are identified as the core of the psychological injury ...
D. Finkelhor, A. Browne
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Sexual abuse by grandparents

Child Abuse & Neglect, 1992
Using a sample of 95 case records of sexual abuse substantiated through child protection investigation, this study confirmed several findings from earlier studies of sexually abusive grandparents: (a) virtually all perpetrators are male, (b) the vast majority of victims are female, (c) a disproportionately large share of abusive grandfathers appear to ...
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