HealthPortal Resources

Disclosures & Interviews for CSA

Healthcare professionals may need to speak with children about sexual abuse experiences. In this section, the health professional is provided with information and guidance that will help them understand the dynamics of the disclosure process, and obtain the information they need from a child and their caregiver in a trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate and culturally-sensitive way.

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Does Enhanced Rapport-Building Alter Dynamics of Investigative Interviews? (Hershkowitz, 2015)

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20 Tips for Speaking with Children About Abuse

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Assessing Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of R-NICHD Protocol (Tamm, 2021)

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What Do Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Feel Will Facilitate Disclosure (Solberg, 2021)

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Complex connections between child sexual abuse disclosure, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (Vezina, 2021)

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Trauma-Informed Care (Forkey, AAP, 2021)

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Literature Review of Best Practices in Health Response to Sexual Abuse (Shea, 2021)

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Applying Trauma-Informed Practices to Care of Immigrant and Refugee Youth (Miller, 2019)

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Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014 (Faller, 2015)

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The Quality of Forensic Child Interviewing in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Indonesia (Sumampouw, 2020)

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Children’s disclosure of sexual abuse during early forensic psychiatric evaluation in Southern Taiwan (Wang, 2016)

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An Ecological Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure (Alaggia, 2010)

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Exploring the disclosure of child sexual abuse with alleged victims and their parents (Hershkowitz, 2007)

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Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures (2000-2016) (Alaggia, 2019)

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Interviewing Children Versus Tossing Coins: Accurately Assessing the Diagnosticity of Children’s Disclosures of Abuse (Lyon, 2012)

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Many ways of telling: Expanding conceptualizations of child sexual abuse disclosure (Alaggia, 2004)

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A Systematic Review of Instruments used to Assess Nonverbal Emotional Signs in Children during an Investigative Interview for Suspected Sexual Abuse (van Ham, 2020)

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Structured forensic interview protocols improve the quality and informativeness of investigative interviews with children (Lamb, 2007)

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Telling a trusted adult: Factors associated with the likelihood of disclosing child sexual abuse prior to and during a forensic interview (Grandgenett, 2019)

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What Helps Children Tell? A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure (Brennan, 2020)