Handbook of Clinical Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse

Child sexual abuse is too complex a phenomenon for any single remedy to cure. Drawing on years of intensive work with such cases, Suzanne M. Sgroi, M.D., firmly maintains that active, coordinated intervention with in the context of the entire family offers the only true help for the victim. Dr. Sgroi stresses the necessity for child-protection workers, police investigators, health-care providers, and social-service and mental-health professionals to join forces to combat the problem. This Handbook of Clinical Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse explains in detail how to provide this complicated network of vital help. SC, 387 pages.