NCJ Number
190295
Date Published
1998
Length
530 pages
Annotation
This volume contains resource material for the workshops of the Fourteenth National Symposium on Child Sexual Abuse, 1998, along with the agenda and a program booklet.
Abstract
Materials were provided for 47 workshops that addressed various issues pertinent to the prevention, detection, investigation, criminal justice processing, and treatment of child sexual abuse cases. Workshops on prevention addressed prevention education curricula and guidelines in program planning, the role of child protection services in child abuse prevention, and recidivism prevention. Workshops on detection included the following topics: medical findings specific for child sexual abuse, how to communicate with and interview children, and the use of picture drawing in sexual abuse assessments. Workshops that pertained to child abuse investigations focused on legal pitfalls and perceptual errors in forensic interviewing, using search warrants and pretext phone calls in child abuse cases, forensic evaluation in sexually abused children, and autopsy protocol and death scene investigations in child deaths. Workshops pertinent to the criminal justice processing of child sexual abuse cases included expert testimony in child abuse cases, rules of evidence, and effective cross-examination strategies in child abuse cases. Workshops pertinent to treatment addressed therapeutic group intervention with sex offenders, a treatment model for native and community rural communities, improving the outcome for children with cognitive interviews, using therapeutic stories in the treatment of sexually abused children, African American children and child sexual abuse, expressive therapy for healing victimization, effective treatment for traumatized children, improving community response to child abuse, interventions with aggressive children and their families, and helping teens heal.