Psychiatric evaluation of sexual abuse cases: A clinical representative sample from Turkey
| Autor: | Neşe Perdahlı Fiş, Ayşe Rodopman Arman, Sibel Kalaça, Meral Berkem |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science business.industry Adjustment disorders medicine.disease Education Child protection Sexual abuse Child sexual abuse Developmental and Educational Psychology Child and adolescent psychiatry medicine Anxiety Domestic violence medicine.symptom Psychological abuse Psychiatry business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Children and Youth Services Review. 32:1285-1290 |
| ISSN: | 0190-7409 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.04.020 |
| Popis: | Objective This study investigated the characteristics of forensic childhood sexual abuse cases referred for psychiatric evaluation in a university hospital. Material and methods The files of childhood sexual abuse cases referred from the Court to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic between January 2006 and January 2010 were examined retrospectively. The information about demographic variables and characteristics of sexual abuse, as well as diagnostic and treatment processes was reviewed. Results A total of 83 sexual abuse cases were evaluated. The majority of them (69%) were girls. The mean age of the children and adolescents was 11.01 ± 3.9 years. The majority (73.5%) of the suspected perpetrators were familiar people, intrafamilial cases constituting 31.1%. The most common type of sexual abuse encountered was genital contact without penetration, representing 44.6% of the cases. All of the strangers were reported to legal authorities within 3 months whereas the ratio was 77% when offenders were familiar people (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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