ALLMedicine™ Child Sexual Abuse Center

Jan 24th, 2023 - Local multi-agency case reviews are regularly held in England when children have suffered significant harm from abuse or neglect, including from child sexual abuse (CSA). Most CSA takes place within families, is common but under-reported and can c...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Data suggest that U.S. rates of violence declined beginning in the 1990s. However, crime trend studies have not entirely agreed on reasons for the decline, and few have empirically assessed the decline in violence against children more specificall...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Although research on child sexual abuse (CSA) has greatly evolved, studies revealing survivors' conflicting feelings towards their perpetrators and family members are scarce. Professionals' perceptions of love in intrafamilial CSA are often overlo...

Jan 21st, 2023 - Vaginal foreign body (VFB) can be a routine presentation to a pediatric unit, especially with associated vaginal discharge. Although it can be rare, this case series highlights that child sexual abuse (CSA) should not be ignored as a possibility w...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Shame has been recognized as a barrier to child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosures, but there has been less focus on the impact of shame on post-disclosure. This study explores how shame is experienced by CSA survivors following disclosure. Semi-struc...

Jan 3rd, 2023 - Child sexual abuse is a large-scale global problem, and with the internet and communication technologies enabling new ways to sexually abuse children, the problem is drastically increasing. Prevent It is a free, anonymous, internet-delivered, ther...

Dec 1st, 2022 - Our goal in this study is examine if a program designed to decrease the severity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms in sexually abused children between the ages of 8-12 was effective.

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...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Rents skyrocket in Abuja due inflation, housing crunch Many residents forced to move to slums to cut costs Influx drives out poorest residents, fuels overcrowding ABUJA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is named after a massive nearby rubb...

Aug 30th, 2022 - Potential healthcare providers should be screened for a history of child abuse issues, according to a guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In the recommendation on preventing the sexual abuse of children in healthcare settings,...

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.

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 ...