Factors That Influence The Believing Of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure

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Date

2006-06

Authors

Cromer, Lisa D.

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University of Oregon

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to investigate factors that influence the believing of child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosures. CSA is a major public health issue (WHO, 2002). Approximately one third of females and one sixth of boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18 (Kendall-Tackett, Williams, & Finkelhor, 1993), yet most victims do not disclose the abuse until long after it occurred, if ever (London, Bruck, Ceci, & Shuman, 2005). Not disclosing has many deleterious effects for victims including not stopping chronic abuse and not receiving therapeutic interventions (Ullman, 2003). Fear of not being believed is a major deterrent against disclosure (Goodman-Brown, Edelstein, Goodman, Jones, & Gordon, 2003) and not being believed when one discloses has negative psychological and physiological health effects (Ullman, 2003). Therefore, the question about factors that influence believing disclosures is related to public health.

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xviii, 80 p.
A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT RC560.C46 C76 2006

Keywords

Bias, Child abuse, Child sexual abuse, Believing, Gender, Disclosure, Child sexual abuse -- Reporting

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