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Aug 13th, 2022 - The public stigma associated with pedophilia, the sexual attraction to prepubescent children, is tremendous. Previous research indicates that undifferentiated media coverage plays an essential role in perpetuating the public stigma by falsely equa...

Aug 13th, 2022 - Universal child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention is a public health priority. The prevailing prevention strategy is school-based CSA prevention programming. School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for flexible modes of deliv...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Organizations that interact with children and young people have a duty of care to ensure the safety of those children and young people from any manner of abuse, particularly from child sexual abuse. Faith-based ("religious") organizations are of p...

Aug 5th, 2022 - One of the many outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic was a shift in the delivery of elementary (primary) education. Schools transitioned swiftly to e-learning and prioritized education that was already or could be easily adapted to virtual formats. G...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a worldwide phenomenon with ongoing and far-reaching consequences for millions of children worldwide. It is a consensus among researchers that continuous CSA represents a unique challenge. The current study aimed to exp...

May 26th, 2022 - Efficacious child mental health services are only helpful if families engage in services. However, as many as 75% of families in need never establish contact with a mental health professional and greater than half of families fail to attend their ...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Participants From August 1998 to June 2001, 92 consecutive patients were admitted to a specialized eating disorder unit at a psychiatric hospital, Modum Bad. The admission criteria were symptoms of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating dis...

Apr 29th, 2020 - The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the effectiveness of the addition of a single-session child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention module (Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids) on improving parents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regar...

Aug 15th, 2019 - Deficits in affect regulation are associated with a high rate of treatment failure to well-established evidence-based treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and deficits in this domain are most frequently found in individuals with ch...

Mar 30th, 2015 - To evaluate the comparative efficacy of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) vs Child Centered Therapy (CCT) in decreasing symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following recent sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse is a com...

Jul 1st, 2021 - Approximately 1 in 5 Americans report childhood sexual abuse. 1 While 50% to 65% of child sexual abuse occurs in the absence of pedophilic interests and is thought to be driven by additional factors such as the availability of an appropriate sexual.

May 7th, 2020 - Testosterone-suppressing treatment with the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist degarelix may reduce dynamic risk factors for sexual offense in men with pedophilic disorder, new research suggests. In a first-of-its-kind randomized, co.

Dec 4th, 2018 - AUSTIN, TEX. – It is important to understand the legislative and social lay of the land for child pornography and related issues, such as sexting and revenge porn, according to Nicole Sussman, MD.

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.