ABSTRACT
Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse brings together the findings of research and clinical work by leading figures in the UK and USA. It makes visible the prevalence of sexual abuse and exploitation of children by normal, ordinary, heterosexual family men, both within and outside the family. Comprehensive and multidisciplinary in approach, it covers the many different aspects of child sexual abuse including:
*phenomenology
*definitions and terminology
*epidemiology
*explanatory frameworks
*concepts and theory
*the contribution of radical feminism
*constructs, classifications and typologies
*policy
*treatments
*multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work
*medical advice
*gender issues
*criminal justice.
The book provides the evidence and knowledge base necessary to begin to achieve effective prevention. It offers professionals, researchers and policy makers an invaluable source of reference and an informed basis for action.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1
chapter 3|21 pages
Paedophile characteristics and patterns of behaviour
chapter 4|17 pages
Sexual exploitation
chapter 5|14 pages
Incest, ‘paedophilia’, pornography and prostitution
part |2 pages
Part 1.2 The victim experience of child sexual abuse and its effects
chapter 8|22 pages
Once I was a child and there was much pain
part |2 pages
Part 1.3 The nature and extent of child sexual abuse
part |2 pages
Part 1.4 Contributing and causal factors
chapter 12|11 pages
Risk factors for development of sexually abusive behaviour in sexually victimized adolescent boys
part |2 pages
Part 2
chapter 13|42 pages
Child sexual abuse and the continuum of victim disclosure
chapter 14|13 pages
Helping girls involved in ‘prostitution’: a Barnardos’ experiment
chapter 17|16 pages
The uses of therapy
part |2 pages
Part 2.2 Child protection policy
chapter 19|15 pages
The medical diagnosis of child sexual abuse in Cleveland in 1987
part |2 pages
PART 3 Conclusion