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Sep 14th, 2021 - Gender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically and institutionally...

Sep 11th, 2021 - Caregiver responses and behaviors often play a significant role in a child's recovery following child sexual abuse (CSA). Caregiver expectations of their child's postabuse functioning has been associated with child symptoms, such that negative exp...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - The Catholic Church in the U.S. has been under concerted public pressure to improve its child protection policies. However, development of these policies has largely been left to the discretion of local dioceses with little central oversight. To d...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with long-term negative consequences in adolescents, but some survivors display resilience. The purpose of this study was to delineate profiles of adaptation in adolescent victims of CSA and to examine their ...

Sep 2nd, 2021 - Females exposed to child sexual abuse (CSA) are at an increased risk of experiencing further victimization in adolescence. Associations between CSA and several forms of cyber and in-person peer bullying victimization were assessed in a prospective...

May 8th, 2019 - According to the CDC, HPV vaccination is recommended for girls and women aged 9-26 years and boys and men aged 9-21 years. Men who have sex with men and have not received the HPV vaccine or who have been incompletely vaccinated can receive vaccina...

Jan 17th, 2019 - Offenders with mental illness get a break A law included as part of budget legislation that was signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown of California in June 2018 has offered people with mental health troubles who have been charged with a crime the opport.

Jan 16th, 2018 - Hello and welcome. I’m Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape. Consider these thoughts to be medical musings after Harvey Weinstein. You might wonder why I am bringing this onerous and revolting topic into the realm of medical discuss...

Aug 4th, 2015 - A brief motivational intervention was unsuccessful for reducing heavy drinking or intimate partner violence in women seeking emergency department (ED) treatment for related injuries, according to a report published online in JAMA. The hope was tha.

Apr 17th, 2015 - (Reuters Health) - Children who learn about preventing sex abuse in school more often report abuse in their own lives than do kids who are not taught about it, according to a new research review. This reinforces the findings of previous reviews, s...