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December, 2016

How to measuring child sexual abuse

How to measuring child sexual abuse Once the criteria for the definition of child sexual abuse are determined, the next issue is how best to determine whether the respondent has been sexually abused. The issue concerning accurate disclosure can probably be subsumed within two categories—methodological and ideological concerns. From an ideological standpoint, the issue of […]

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Definition of Child Sexual Abuse

Definition of Child Sexual Abuse Researchers have not yet reached a consensus on how inclusive the definition of child sexual abuse should be. "One of the major difficulties in assessing the extent of abuse and its effects is that the definition of sexual abuse is not consistent in the literature" (Craine, Henson, Colliver, & MacLean, […]

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Agenda for Theoretical Development

Agenda for Theoretical Development While the theoretical knowledge base of child sexual abuse has advanced considerably in the last 100 years, important problems remain, one of which is that the theoretical literature base relates primarily to incest. Seduction by the daughter, collusion by the mother, the influence of the dysfunctional family—all suggest a primary orientation […]

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Feminist Theory of child sexual abuse

Feminist Theory of child sexual abuse In the 1970s and 1980s, feminist writers began to discuss the relationship of child sexual abuse to the social environment (Herman, 1981; Rush, 1980). Feminists believed that child sexual abuse was symptomatic of a patriarchal society in which males had power over females. One of the ways in which […]

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Incest As a Symptom of Family Pathology

Incest As a Symptom of Family Pathology Another repository for blame is the family itself. This conceptualization is most often found in the early literature on family systems theory in which incest was viewed as a homeostatic device that maintained equilibrium within the family (Carper, 1979). Central to this hypothesis was the concept of circular […]

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The Effect of Freud’s Renunciation

The Effect of Freud’s Renunciation The renunciation of Freud’s seduction theory and later, the forwarding of the Oedipus complex, profoundly affected the mental health profession. Psychoanalytic theory became the foundation for psychiatry for many years to come, with the Oedipus complex being the core of that theory. To use psychoanalytic theory, however, Freud’s original theory […]

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Theory of Periodicity

Theory of Periodicity One of the more entertaining, although probably no less factual, rationales for Freud’s renunciation pertains to a series of events involving Freud, one of his good friends, and one of his patients. While the following is not so much a rationale for rejecting his theory of seduction, it does give an interesting […]

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