scholarly journals Review of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse in Nigeria: Implications for 21st Century Counsellors

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olusolami Okunlola ◽  
Abiodun Gesinde ◽  
Agatha Nwabueze ◽  
Angela Okojide
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila de Alencar PEREIRA ◽  
Silvana Carneiro MACIEL ◽  
Dayse Barbosa SILVA ◽  
Luã Medeiros Fernandes de MELO

Abstract This study sought to identify the structure of legal professionals’ representations of child and adolescent sexual abuse anchored by the central core theory of social representations. The sample included 31 professionals responsible for implementing public policies in relation to victims, their family members, and aggressors. A sociodemographic questionnaire was employed with a free word association task. The resulting data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 21.0 and the R Interface for Multidimensional Analyses of Texts and Questionnaires, respectively. The central core of the professionals’ representations included the terms “violence”, “trauma”, and “grief”; furthermore, they pathologized the abuser, and their representations were anchored by criminological and psychological explanations of sexual abuse. This fragmented view of sexual abuse lacks macroexplanations that address cultural and social factors as well as proposals that involve society as a whole.


Author(s):  
Elsa Lucia Escalante-Barrios ◽  
Sergi Fàbregues ◽  
Julio Meneses ◽  
María del Mar García-Vita ◽  
Daladier Jabba ◽  
...  

Child and adolescent sexual abuse (CSA) is an important global health problem, especially in non-Western low- and middle-income countries. A number of studies have indicated that, in Latin American countries, male CSA is phenomenon of great concern. However, research on this topic is seriously lacking, and more specifically, on male-on-male CSA. We carried out a qualitative and quantitative secondary analysis of 680 cases of alleged male-on-male CSA that occurred between the years 2017 and 2018 in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. We analyzed the contents of forensic interviews with the alleged victims, conducted by professionals working at the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. Our findings indicated a high prevalence of cases of alleged male-on-male CSA among young minors. Most of these cases were allegedly perpetrated by offenders known to the victim and involved high levels of violence. Evidence-based and culturally grounded preventative actions, such as training-based programs for teachers and parents among other public health initiatives are needed to address this type of CSA. Further research is also required to gain a more fine-grained understanding of the cultural and social context of CSA in the Caribbean Latin American countries.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia López ◽  
Concepció Faro ◽  
Lourdes Lopetegui ◽  
Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera ◽  
Mònica Monteagudo ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Freeman ◽  
Kathleen M. Parillo ◽  
Karyn Collier ◽  
Ryan W. Rusek

Author(s):  
Samantha L. Friedenberg ◽  
David J. Hansen ◽  
Mary Fran Flood

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