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Child Sexual Abuse: Children at Risk Are Being Ignored
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.2662
Subject(s) - sexual abuse , audit , health professionals , child sexual abuse , psychology , child abuse , psychiatry , medicine , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , health care , poison control , medical emergency , management , economics , economic growth
Key Practitioner Messages Evidence exists for the concomitant presence of sexual abuse with other forms of maltreatment; however, this audit study suggests that questions that could arouse the suspicion of CSA are not being asked consistently. It is important for healthcare professionals to specifically consider sexual abuse when seeing children who present for Child Protection Medical Assessments.