Sexually Abused Children & Their Families

(partial) Definition and Recognition: Definition and recognition of sexual child abuse. Psychosexual development within the family. Sexual Child Abuse and the Law: Sexual child abuse: the legislation and the law in the United States. Psychodynamics and Evaluation: Incest: intake and investigation. The child psychiatric examination of the sexually abused child. Treatment: Special problems in the treatment of child sexual abuse. Incest and the dysfunctional family system. Group psychotherapy with sexually abused children. The co-therapy relationship in group treatment of sexually mistreated adolescent girls. Prognosis and Outcome: Long-term effects of sexual abuse in childhood. The effects of child sexual abuse: methodological considerations. References with selected annotation. Audiovisual materials with critique.