PSYC 376 Lecture 2: Psychology 376 UNIT 2
15 May 2016
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Psychology 376: unit 2: disclosure, denial and recantation of allegations of child sexual abuse. Understand the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome; what it is, its place in recent history, its current status, and the research it stimulated. Critically evaluate survey research on delayed disclosure, denial, and recantation of child sexual abuse. Explain patterns of disclosure, denial, and recantation of child sexual abuse. Summit wrote a paper discussing how children disclose sexual abuse. Expert evidence based on csaas had been accepted as evidence of sexual abuse as late as 1992. Now, canadian courts declare csaas as a theory that holds no diagnostic power. There are 5 components that characterise csa victims: secrecy: child is expected to keep the abuse secret. Child may be given the power to preserve the family or to destroy the family. Some children lead to early disclosure and blurts out what is happening without understanding the consequences: helplessness. Victims are victimized by a person they know.
