Full Description
This fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest re‑
search relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the
practical and policy implications of the findings.
Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international
backgrounds offer critical commentary on these findings gathered from
both field and laboratory research. Building on the first edition, this book
presents the research from the past twenty years on why delayed disclosure
or denial is so common and what we can do about it. Chapters focus on
field research interviewing reluctant children, including suspected victims
of sexual abuse and other crimes, victims of trafficking, as well as young,
suspected perpetrators of sexual abuse. Adding emphasis on research‑based
methods for overcoming reluctance, it also explores the different dynamics
and circumstances which affect disclosure patterns and the ways in which
interviewers can facilitate disclosures.
Child Sexual Abuse is for researchers and practitioners from child, foren‑
sic, and clinical psychology, social work, and all legal professionals who need
to understand this crime. It will also be of interest to trainee social workers
specializing in child welfare and intervention.
Contents
1. Child sexual abuse: Who, when, and what to tell? 2. Understanding child sexual abuse: Disclosures, delays, and denials 3. Challenges to identification and interviewing of suspected youth victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking 4. Truths and lies: Making sense of denials and recantations in sexual abuse cases 5. Historical cases: Consequence of delayed disclosure on criminal prosecutions 6. When allegations of child sexual abuse are false 7. Disclosures and forensic interviews in the context of online child sexual abuse 8. Disclosures and denials by young people suspected of sexual offences 9. Strategies to overcome the reluctance to disclose abuse: The Revised NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol 10. Risks and benefits of therapeutic interventions for non-disclosing suspected victims of abuse
