Preface
Acknowledgments
I. What Constitutes Sexual Maltreatment?
1. Professional Roles and the Extent of Child Sexual
Maltreatment
2. Definitions and Signs of Child Sexual Maltreatment
II. Collaborating with Institutions Having Mandatory and Legal
Obligations
3. Working with Protective Services and Police
4. Collaborating with Attorneys and Working with the Courts
III. Data Collection and Decision Making
5. Child Interviews When Sexual Abuse is Suspected
6. The Context of Child Interviewing
7. Decision Making in Child Sexual Abuse
IV. Sexual Abuse in Special Contexts
8. Sexual Abuse in Family Foster Care
9. Sexual Abuse in Day Care
10. Sexual Abuse Allegations in Divorce
References
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author
Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Ph.D., A.C.S.W., D.C.S.W., is Professor
of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She is also Director
of the Family Assessment Clinic, a multidisciplinary team,
Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Child Welfare
Training Program, Principal Investigator of the Training Program
for Child Welfare Supervisors, and Principal Investigator of the
Hasbro Early Assessment Project, all at the University of
Michigan.
She is author of Social Work with Abused and Neglected Children
(The Free Press, 1981), Child Sexual Abuse: An Interdisciplinary
Manual for Diagnosis, Case Management, and Treatment (Columbia
University Press, 1988), Understanding Child Maltreatment (Sage
Publications, 1990), Child Sexual Abuse: Intervention and Treatment
Issues (Department of Health and Human Services, 1993), APSAC Study
Guide: Evaluating Children Suspected of Having Been Sexually
Abused, (Sage Publications, 1996), and Maltreatment in Early
Childhood: Tools for Research-based Intervention (Haworth Press,
2000),and approximately 45 research and practice based articles on
child abuse and neglect.
She was a member of the Board of Directors of the American
Professional Society on the Abuse of Children for six years and of
its Executive Board for five years and is presently a member of the
APSAC Advisory Board and Co-chair of the Guidelines Task Forces.
'Will prove a functional aid for all caring professions which deal with sexually abused children and their families. It is well written with numerous references' - Nursing Standard
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