Legal interventions for child victims.

The Use of a Watching Brief as a Legal Tool for the Protection of Child Victims in the Criminal Justice Process

Interventions for families victimized by child sexual abuse: Clinical issues and approaches for child advocacy center-based services

Child sexual abuse poses serious mental health risks, not only to child victims but also to non-offending family members. As the impact of child sexual abuse is heterogeneous, varied mental health interventions should be available in order to ensure that effective and individualized treatments are implemented. Treatment modalities for child victims and non-offending family members are identifie...

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused and Existential Group Therapy on the defense mechanisms of Child Sexual Abuse Victims in Isfahan

Extended Abstract 1.Introduction Sexual harassment, or in other words, the use of children and adolescents for sexual gratification, is one of the forms of harassment of children and adolescents that occurs at all ages from childhood to adolescence, and the adverse consequences and sometimes irreparable harm to health and well-being. Adults are large in size (2). In this regard, resea...

Child sexual abuse presenting to District General Hospital, Chilaw

Introduction Incidence of child sexual abuse is increasing worldwide. There is little data on child sexual abuse in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Objectives To describe the demographic and medico-legal findings of victims of sexual abuse aged less than 16 years and to identify factors associated with positive findings on medical-legal examination. Methods This cross-sectional ana...

Testifying in criminal court: emotional effects on child sexual assault victims.

Child victims must cope not only with the emotional consequences of criminal acts but also with the potentially traumatizing effects of legal involvement. Dramatic increases in the reporting of child sexual abuse are bringing greater numbers of children into contact with the criminal justice system, raising fears that child victims of sex crimes will be further harmed by the courts. In the pres...