How do we recognize recent sexual abuse in children less than 10 years of age?
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2012
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In E. A. Kalfoğlu (Ed.), Sexual abuse - breaking the silence
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A diagnosis of sexual abuse in children is being made increasingly in France and in all Western countries. Sexual abuses in France represent a third of all cases of maltreatment 1. In children less than 10 years of age, discovery of the circumstances varies according to the situations experienced by the adolescents. Stories can involve silence or a revelation by indirect signs or consequences of abuses. To approach this diagnosis, we will successively address three aspects: the usual circumstances of the revelation or evocation of this diagnosis, a speech and behavioral side, and a clinical examination and its difficulties
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France, Abuse-sexual, Best Practices-Medical Assessment, International Resources