TY - JOUR
T1 - Agreement among professionals about a child's sexual abuse status
T2 - Interviews with sexually anatomically correct dolls as indicators of abuse
AU - Realmuto, George M.
AU - Wescoe, Sibyl
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - This study was designed to define clinicians' ratings of the comments, behaviors, and affects of abused children and compare them with the same clinicians' decisions about the child's abuse status. The authors concluded that sexually anatomically correct dolls used alone are inadequate in providing enough information for professionals to accurately assess the abuse status of young children. Also it is unclear what observations of the child by mental health professionals are best correlated with their determinations of a child's abuse status. Of concern was the finding that the mental health professionals were more likely to be in agreement with the interviewer's determination of abuse than with the actual status of the child, suggesting undue influence of the interviewer, or, alternatively, both observer and interviewer were responding to unidentified child factors.
AB - This study was designed to define clinicians' ratings of the comments, behaviors, and affects of abused children and compare them with the same clinicians' decisions about the child's abuse status. The authors concluded that sexually anatomically correct dolls used alone are inadequate in providing enough information for professionals to accurately assess the abuse status of young children. Also it is unclear what observations of the child by mental health professionals are best correlated with their determinations of a child's abuse status. Of concern was the finding that the mental health professionals were more likely to be in agreement with the interviewer's determination of abuse than with the actual status of the child, suggesting undue influence of the interviewer, or, alternatively, both observer and interviewer were responding to unidentified child factors.
KW - Child abuse
KW - Determination of abuse]
KW - Sexually anatomically correct dolls
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U2 - 10.1016/0145-2134(92)90108-4
DO - 10.1016/0145-2134(92)90108-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 1393730
AN - SCOPUS:0026783976
SN - 0145-2134
VL - 16
SP - 719
EP - 725
JO - Child Abuse and Neglect
JF - Child Abuse and Neglect
IS - 5
ER -