PSYC 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Ussher, Jon Runyan, Autobiographical Memory
19 Apr 2017
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Unit 2: disclosure, denial, and recantation of allegations of child sexual abuse. We then provide a thorough evaluation of available evidence on children"s disclosure patterns based on two kinds of surveys: adult"s retrospective reports of childhood sexual abuse and surveys of children who are suspected to be victims of sexual abuse. Of particular importance is the critique of studies and the discussions of why some methodologies seriously restrict what can be concluded and may even render the data uninterruptable. Notwithstanding the methodological limitations of several studies, london et al. (2005, 2008) drew some compelling conclusions about children"s disclosure patterns. The question of how children disclose sexual abuse was discussed in a seminal paper by summit (1983). In this paper he described a theory that he called child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (csaas) wherein he described five components that characterize sexually abused children.
