ALLMedicine™ Child Sexual Abuse Center

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) remains a significant public health problem. Although the deleterious effects on the child victims could be mitigated through evidence-based interventions, victims often fail to be identified and receive clinical assessmen...

Jun 1st, 2021 - In children, distinguishing anogenital warts (AGW) acquired innocently from those acquired by child sexual abuse (CSA) is challenging. High-quality studies examining this relationship are sparse. Here, we sought to evaluate the association between...

May 20th, 2021 - Confirmation bias is one of the most important sources of error in clinical assessment and clinical judgment. There has been little scholarship on the role of confirmation bias in forensic interviews with children who may have been abused sexually...

May 18th, 2021 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) has been implicated in dissociative peritraumatic and post-traumatic symptoms and disorders. Although explicitly relevant to the legal process following alleged CSA, very little is known about dissociative manifestations i...

May 14th, 2021 - This manuscript provides an introduction to the special issue: Where are we now? A consolidation of the research on long-term impact of child sexual abuse. Over the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of research about the long-term imp...

Sep 30th, 2017 - Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is a gross violation of their rights and a global public health problem. It adversely affects the health of children and adolescents.

Sep 17th, 2008 - Child sexual abuse is a common problem in our society and medical professionals who provide evaluations of children who may have been abused need to be updated as to recent research findings and recommendations for conducting examinations and inte...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) remains a significant public health problem. Although the deleterious effects on the child victims could be mitigated through evidence-based interventions, victims often fail to be identified and receive clinical assessmen...

Jun 1st, 2021 - In children, distinguishing anogenital warts (AGW) acquired innocently from those acquired by child sexual abuse (CSA) is challenging. High-quality studies examining this relationship are sparse. Here, we sought to evaluate the association between...

May 20th, 2021 - Confirmation bias is one of the most important sources of error in clinical assessment and clinical judgment. There has been little scholarship on the role of confirmation bias in forensic interviews with children who may have been abused sexually...

May 18th, 2021 - Child sexual abuse (CSA) has been implicated in dissociative peritraumatic and post-traumatic symptoms and disorders. Although explicitly relevant to the legal process following alleged CSA, very little is known about dissociative manifestations i...

May 14th, 2021 - This manuscript provides an introduction to the special issue: Where are we now? A consolidation of the research on long-term impact of child sexual abuse. Over the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of research about the long-term imp...

Nov 4th, 2019

Mar 26th, 2019 - WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is convening a task force to address the issue of child sexual abuse in the Indian Health Service (IHS), senior administration officials said Tuesday. "The goal is to make recommendations to the president to ...

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...

Apr 16th, 2015 - School-based educational programs to prevent sexual abuse appear to increase children’s knowledge, disclosure of abuse, and protective behaviors with no measurable harms, based on moderate evidence in an updated Cochrane systematic review. These p.

Apr 22nd, 2014 - Exposure to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may increase the odds of later suicidal behavior, including suicide attempts, new research suggests. A meta-analysis of 9 studies from 6 different countries, with a total of almost 9000 participants, showed...