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Sexual Victimization of Child and Adolescent Patients
Author(s) -
Newbern Virginia B.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1989.tb00090.x
Subject(s) - sexual abuse , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , child abuse , psychological abuse , physical abuse , child sexual abuse , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , medicine , poison control , medical emergency , radiology
Extrafamilial abuse of hospitalized or institutionalized patients has not often been studied. Five categories of caregivers (N = 272) reported physical, psychological and “socially acceptable” instances of abuse, with most incidents occurring one or more times per week. Abuse of children, especially sexual abuse, was singled out for further study. Case reports supplement the presentation. Implications for understanding abuse, for practice and for research are presented.