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Is the child victim of sexual abuse telling the truth?

dc.contributor.authorFaller, Kathleen Coulbornen_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-04-07T18:34:55Z
dc.date.available2006-04-07T18:34:55Z
dc.date.issued1984en_US
dc.identifier.citationFaller, Kathleen Coulborn (1984)."Is the child victim of sexual abuse telling the truth?." Child Abuse &amp; Neglect 8(4): 473-481. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25009>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V7N-464270N-FB/2/cbe6a1120bc0e3ea2245da813a79ea6fen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25009
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=6542819&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractIn order to adequately investigate an allegation of sexual abuse, professionals must both understand the motives of the victim, perpetrator, and victim's mother (in incest cases) to he or tell the truth and possess the techniques for examining the child's story. Children almost never make up stories about being sexually abused. In fact victims are often revictimized in multiple ways for truthfully asserting they have been sexually abused. Perpetrators usually deny their abusive behavior. Mothers may also have reasons for not acknowledging the sexual abuse. Within this larger framework, the evaluator should systematically explore the allegation in order to assure the story is true. First, in examining the story, the evaluator looks for a detailed description of events surrounding the sexual abuse, explicit information about sexual behavior told from a child's viewpoint, and an emotional response consistent with their statement. Second, the evaluator buttresses the information with other data: (1) statements the child has made to other people about the sexual abuse; (2) sexual content in the child's play, picture drawing or story telling; (3) sexual behavior on the child's part; (4) sexual knowledge beyond what one would expect for the child's age; and (5) symptomatic behavior indicative of stress.en_US
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dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.titleIs the child victim of sexual abuse telling the truth?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Worken_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumAssistant Professor, School of Social Work, Co-director, University of Michigan Inter-disciplinary Project on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1015 East Huron, Ann Arbor USAMI 48109en_US
dc.identifier.pmid6542819en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25009/1/0000436.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0145-2134(84)90029-2en_US
dc.identifier.sourceChild Abuse &amp; Neglecten_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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