Product Description: This book represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluated. Despite decades of substantial research in this sensitive area, professional consensus remains elusive...read more

Understanding and Assessing Child Sexual Maltreatment, Second Edition updates its comprehensive coverage of child sexual abuse definitions and indicators, interview and questioning techniques, and diagnosis guidelines to include an insightful response to the building social backlash against the so-called "child abuse industry." Distinguished scholar and experienced practitioner Kathleen Coulborn Faller applies twenty-five years of clinical experience and state-of-the-art research to offer authoritative guidance to both novice and experience practitioners. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Detect and put a stop to child abuse!For mental health professionals, social workers, legal professionals, and policy makers, Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-Based Intervention examines strategies and ideas for professional training in child protection in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Professionals evaluating children for alleged sexual abuse must be aware that they may ultimately be called upon to present their findings in a court of law. This invaluable video from child abuse evaluation expert Kathleen Faller and child advocacy lawyer Suellyn Scarnecchia helps viewers understand their role in legal proceedings; prepare and deliver testimony effectively; and minimize the stress involved for children...read more

Product Description: Professionals called upon to interview children about alleged sexual abuse must possess a solid understanding of both legal and clinical issues. What are the most appropriate techniques for eliciting reliable accounts of children's experience? How should evaluators structure the interview to avoid legal challenges to their findings? This video from child abuse evaluation expert Kathleen Faller is ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals, lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel...read more

Product Description: Despite increased awareness of the problem of sexual abuse, most institutions training the helping professions have trouble compiling material for their regular curricula on child sexual victimization. This book fills the need for all the relevant material to be drawn together in an accessible form...read more