Annual of social work, Vol. 16 No. 3, 2009.
Review article
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
Kristina Sesar
orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-7114
; Centre for Mental Health, Community Health Centre Široki Brijeg, Široki Brijeg, Croatia
Abstract
The research conducted in the last few decades has revealed that child sexual abuse represents a risk for numerous short-term as well as long-term psychological and interpersonal difficulties which can influence the functioning in childhood and in the adult age. The article reviews basic notions of child sexual abuse: definition and terminology of sexual abuse, differentiation between abusive and non-abusive sexual actions as well as categorization, frequency, risk factors and consequences of child sexual abuse.
Keywords
sexual abuse; prevalence; risk factors; consequences
Hrčak ID:
47818
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2010.
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