Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse : Policy and Practice (Hardcover)

Introduction 1 Child sexual abuse and the radical feminist endeavour: an overview PART 1 Child sexual abuse and exploitation Part 1.1 Adolescent and adult male child rapists by many other names 2 What happened when women said ‘incest’ 3 Paedophile characteristics and patterns of behaviour: developing and using a typology 4 Sexual exploitation: a new discovery or one part of the continuum of sexual abuse in childhood? 5 Incest, ‘paedophilia’, pornography and prostitution: conceptualising the connections Part 1.2 The victim experience of child sexual abuse and its effects 6 Paternal incest: an autobiographical account 7 The experience and the effects of child sexual abuse involving pornography 8 Once I was a child and there was much pain: a glimpse into the soul of an incest survivor 9 The newly recognised shattering effects of child abuse Part 1.3 The nature and extent of child sexual abuse and causal factors 11 Sadistic, sexual and violent acts in the young: contributing and causal factors 12 Risk factors for development of sexually abusive behaviour in sexually victimized adolescent boys: cross sectional study PART 2 Interventions Part 2.1 The ‘treatment’ of victims and abusers 13 Child sexual abuse and the continuum of victim disclosure: professionals working with children in Cleveland in 1987 14 Helping girls involved in ‘prostitution’: a Barnardos’ experiment 15 Treating adolescents who sexually abuse others 16 Patterns of sex offending and strategies for effective assessment and intervention 17 The uses of therapy: understanding and treating the effects of childhood abuse and neglect Part 2.2 Child protection policy 18 Gender and the child protection process 19 The medical diagnosis of child sexual abuse in Cleveland in 1987: the paediatrician’s dilemma 20 Confronting sexual abuse: challenges for the future PART 3 Conclusion 21 Child protection and child sexual abuse prevention: influencing policy and practice