Abuse of children in day care centres: Characteristics and consequences
作者:
Susan J. Kelley,
期刊:
Child Abuse Review
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 15-25
ISSN:0952-9136
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/car.2380030105
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd
关键词: Abuse;Day Care;Consequences
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractWhile day care sexual abuse cases share features in common with sexual abuse in other settings, many characteristics of abuse in day care settings merit special attention. These factors include the young age of the child victims, the involvement of multiple victims and multiple perpetrators, females as perpetrators, use of extreme threats, severity of the abuse, and in some instances ritualistic activities. Research findings support clinical impressions that children are negatively impacted by sexual abuse in day care. Consequences of abuse in day care include anxiety, excessive fearfulness, behavioural disturbances, sexual acting out and sleep disorders. Parents whose children are abused in day care centres also experience psychological distress with symptom profiles consistent with post‐traumatic stress disorder. Abuse of children in day care settings warrants a specialized treatment approach. A major goal of treatment is to decrease symptomatology among all family member
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