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Is sexual abuse of children with disabilities disclosed? A retrospective analysis of child disability and the likelihood of sexual abuse among those attending Norwegian hospitals
- Author:
- KVAM Marit Hoem
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(8), August 2000, pp.1073-1084.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
According to North American studies disabled children are at 2-3 times greater risk of being sexually abused than non-disabled. If the risk ratio for disabled children in Norway is similar, and the disclosure of sexual abuse is the same for disabled as for non-disabled, one should expect disabled children to constitute 2-3 times the 11% they constitute in the general populations. This research aimed to investigate if this is the case for Norwegian children, and to find characteristics within in the handicapped group suspected of being sexually assaulted. Children with disabilities make up a smaller part of children coming to paediatric hospitals with the suspicion of being sexually abused than expected. The results indicate that when a child has a severe disability, the caretakers do not seem to recognise it as sexual abuse before it is quite obvious.
Reading therapy for children: a bibliography for hospital and home
- Editor:
- SCHLENTHER Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- Library Association. Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries Group. Reading Therap
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 117p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Contains listings of reading materials in the following sections: hospital stories; visits to the doctor; the body; health problems and disabilities; minor illness; family relationships; new baby in the family; adoption; divorce and fostering; fears and emotions; night time; anger and rude behaviour; death and dying; playgroup and school; moving house; eating problems; feeling small and tall; and child abuse.
The unconscious at work: individual and organizational stress in the human services
- Editors:
- OBHOLZER Anton, ROBERTS Vega Zagier
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 242p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people managing and working in the human services, including consultants, trainers and students of organisational behaviour. Offers employees new ways of looking at their own experiences of stress at work, and of increasing understanding of the processes which can undermine effectiveness and morale. Part 1 contains the conceptual framework and examines the unconscious aspects of organisational life from psychoanalytical and from open systems theory perspectives. Part 2 looks at the stress involved in working with people and includes sections on working in a special baby care unit, with damaged children, disabled children, older people, and with dying people. Parts 3 and 4 deal with organisations and their effects on the people who work in them.