Child Sexual Abuse: An Interdisciplinary Manual for Diagnosis, Case Management, and Treatment / Edition 1

by Kathleen Coulborn Faller

Overview

— Jan Kirby-Gell, Children Today

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231064712
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/05/1989
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.93(h) x 0.91(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kathleen Coulborn Faller is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Michigan, and Co-Director of the University's Interdisciplinary Project on Child Abuse and Neglect. She is the author of Social Work with Abused and Neglected Children.

Table of Contents

The Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
Evaluation of Sexual Abuse
Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse
Medical Glossary

What People are Saying About This

Emily Jean McFadden

Has a gripping versimilitude resulting from the author's extensive use of case material. The reader sees the details and nuances, feels the anguish and confusion of the victims, and grasps the issues on more than just an intellectual or theoretical level.

— Emily Jean McFadden, M.S.W., Smith College Studies in Social Work

Frada L. Mozenter

[The author] provides a structured, in-depth, and scholarly approach to the analysis of specific issues. Highly recommended.

— Frada L. Mozenter, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library

Editorial Reviews

[Clearly] written to provide guidelines and direcetions for both students and practitioners. Abundant case illustrations and vignettes enable the reader to follow the progress of a case workp or the processs of case management.

Hospital and Community Psychiatry

Highly Reccommended.

CHOICE

Highly Reccommended.

Choice

If I were a practitioner in the field, I would want to use this book continuously, for it is filled with interesting case studies that illustrate the variety of conceptual frameworks that have been developed to identify and treat child sexual abuse.

Jan Kirby-Gell

[The author] provides a structured, in-depth, and scholarly approach to the analysis of specific issues. Highly recommended.

Frada L. Mozenter

Child Sexual Abuse by Kathleen Coulborn Faller has a gripping versimilitude resulting from the author's extensive use of case material. The reader sees the details and nuances, feels the anguish and confusion of the victims, and grasps the issues on more than just an intellectual or theoretical level.

Emily Jean McFadden