Review of the contemporary literature on how children report sexual abuse to others:

dc.creator	London, K,, Bruck, M., Wright, D.B. & Ceci, S.J.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-19T16:27:16Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-19T16:27:16Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description	Methods used during forensic interviews with children are driven by beliefs about how children recall and report child sexual abuse (CSA) to others. Summit (1983) proposed a theory (Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome) contending that, due to the specific traumatic characteristics of CSA, children will often delay disclosing abuse or altogether fail to disclose during childhood, deny abuse when asked, and often recant abuse allegations. His theory has had a tremendous impact on the field of CSA forensic evaluations, despite its dearth of empirical support. In this paper, we review and critique the contemporary literature from two main sources: retrospective accounts from adults reporting CSA experiences and studies of children undergoing forensic evaluation for CSA.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11212/941
dc.identifier.uri	http://www2.fiu.edu/~dwright/pdf/disclosure.pdf
dc.publisher	Memory
dc.subject	Abuse-sexual
dc.subject	Best Practices-Interviewing
dc.subject	Disclosure
dc.subject	Forensic evaluation -- disclosure
dc.subject	Interviewing
dc.title	Review of the contemporary literature on how children report sexual abuse to others:
dc.type	Text

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