Family Sexual Abuse: Frontline Research and Evaluation

by Michael Quinn Patton (editor)

This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background of sexual offenders; effects of sexual abuse on children, of offender removal from the home and of reunification and the prognosis for incest offenders after treatment. Within this context the immediate problems of local practitioners dealing with real life instances are highlighted and discussed.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1991

Reviews

[Birdy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This edited volume is fairly outdated. Most chapters in this text use the same Minnesota treatment sample, meaning that most analyses are exploratory and plagued by small sample sizes. Overall, the text provides a decent foundation on intrafamilial CSA, but leaves the reader with very few answers.