Research & Evaluation
Child Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Issues
Title IV-E Curriculum Module
Selected References and Further Readings
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Bolen, R. M. (2001). Child sexual abuse: Its scope and our failure. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Briere, J. N., & Elliott, D. M. (1994). Immediate and long-term impacts of child sexual abuse. The Future of Children, 4, 54-69.
Briere, J. & Elliott, D. M. (2003). Prevalence and psychological sequelae of self-reported childhood physical and sexual abuse in a general population sample of men and women. Child Abuse and Neglect, 27, 1205-1222.
Chen, J., Dunne, M., & Han, P. (2004). Child sexual abuse in China: A study of adolescents in four provinces. Child Abuse and Neglect, 28, 1171-1186.
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Lynch, Michael, & Holt, K. D. (l993). Resilience in maltreated children: Processes leading to adaptive outcomes. Development and Psychopathology, 5, 629-647.
Douglas, A. R. (2000). Reported anxieties concerning intimate parenting in women sexually abused as children. Child Abuse & Neglect, 24, 425-434.
Finkelhor, D. (1994). Current information on the scope and nature of child sexual abuse. The Future of Children, 4, 31-53.
Finkelhor, D., Ormrod, R., Turner, H., & Hamby, S. L. (2005). The victimization of children and youth: A comprehensive, national survey. Child Maltreatment, 10, 5-25.
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). Evidence-based practice, descriptive research, and the resilience-schema-gender-brain (RSGB) assessment. British Journal of Social Work. 35 (6), 843-862.
Gilgun, J. F. (1996). Human development and adversity in ecological perspective,
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Gilgun, J. F. (1995). We shared something special: The moral discourse of incest perpetrators. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 265-281
Gilgun, J. F. (1994). Avengers, conquerors, playmates, and lovers: A continuum of roles played by perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Families in Society, 75, 467-480.
Gilgun, J. F. (l988). Decision-making in interdisciplinary treatment teams. Child Abuse & Neglect, 12, 231-239.
Gilgun, J. F. (l988). Self-centeredness and the adult male perpetrator of child sexual abuse. Contemporary Family Therapy, 10, 216-234.
Gilgun, J. F. (1988). Why children don't tell: Fear of separation and loss and the disclosure of child sexual abuse. New Designs in Youth Development, 8, 16-20.
Gilgun, J. F. (l986). Sexually abused girls' knowledge of sexual abuse and sexuality. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1, 209-225.
Gilgun, J. F. & Sol Gordon (l985). Sex education and the prevention of child sexual abuse. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 11, 46-52.
Gilgun, J. F., & Reiser, E. (1990). The development of sexual identity among men sexually abused as children. Families in Society, 71(9), 515-523.
Gilgun, J. F., & Connor. T. M. (1989). How perpetrators view child sexual abuse. Social Work, 34, 349-351.
Gilgun, J. F., Klein, C., & Pranis, K. (2000). The significance of resources in models of risk, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14, 627-646.
Greenwald, E., Leitenberg, H., Cado, S., & Tarran, M. J. (1990). Childhood sexual abuse: Long term effects on psychological and sexual functioning in a nonclinical and nonstudent sample of adult women. Child Abuse and Neglect, 14, 503-513.
Helweg-Larsen, K., & Larsen, H. B. (2006). The prevalence of unwanted and unlawful sexual experiences reported by Danish adolescents: Results from a national youth survey in 2002. Acta Paediatrica, 95, 1270-1276.
Jaswal, S. (2005). Child and adolescent sexual abuse in health facilities. The Indian Journal of Social Work, 66(4), 395-413.
Krug, E. G., Dahlberg, L. L., Mercy, J. A., Zwi, A. B., & Lozano, R. (2002, Eds.). World report on violence and health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Laws, D.R., Hudson, S. M., & Ward, T. (Eds.) (2000). Remaking relapse prevention with sex offenders: A sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
LeDoux, J. (1996). The emotional brain. New York: Simon & Schuster
London, K., Bruck, M., Ceci, S. J., & Shuman, D. W. (2005). Disclosure of child sexual abuse: What does the research tell us about the ways that children tell?. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, 194-226.
MacMillan, H. L., Fleming, J. E., Trocme, N., Boyle, M. H., Wong, M., Racine, Y. A., Beardslee, W. R., & Offord, D. R. (1997). Prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse in the community: Results from the Ontario Health Supplement. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 278, 131-135.
Madu, S. N., & Peltzer, K. (2001). Prevalence and patterns of child sexual abuse and victim-perpetrator relationship among secondary school students in the Northern Province (South Africa). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 30, 311-321.
Masten, A. S., & Wright, M.O. (1998). Cumulative risk and protection models of child maltreatment. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1(3), 7-30.
Molnar, B. E., Buka, S. L., Kessler, R. C. (2001). Child sexual abuse and subsequent psychopathology: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey. American Journal of Public Health, 91, 753-760.
Olsson, A., Ellsberg, M., Berglund, S., Herrera, A., Zelaya, E., Pena, R., Zelaya, F., & Perrson, L. (2000). Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence among Nicaraguan men and women: A population-based anonymous survey. Child Abuse and Neglect, 24, 1579-1589.
Roberts, R., O’Conner, T., Dunn, J., Golding, J., & the ALSPAC Study Team. (2004). The effects of child sexual abuse in later family life; mental health, parenting and adjustment of offspring. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 525-545.
Sedlak A. J., & Broadhurst, D. D. (1996). Third National incidence study of child abuse and neglect: Final report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Senn, T. E., Carey, M. P., Coury-Doniger, P., Marguerite, A. U., & Vanable, P. A. (2006). Childhood sexual abuse and sexual risk behavior among men and women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 720-731.
Swanston, H. Y., Tebbutt, J. S., O’Toole, B. I., & Kim Oates, R. (1997). Sexually abused children 5 years after presentation: A case-control study. Pediatrics, 100, 600-608.
Tulir – Centre for the Prevention & Healing of Child Sexual Abuse (2006). Research on prevalence & dynamics of child sexual abuse among school going children in Chennai. Chennai, India: Tulir-CPHCSA.
Widom, C. S. (l991). Avoidance of criminality in abused and neglected children. Psychiatry, 54, 162-174.
Ystgaard, M., Hestetun, I., Loeb, M., & Mehlum, L. (2004). Is there a specific relationship between childhood sexual and physical abuse and repeated suicidal behavior?. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 863-875.
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