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Edited by Tara Ney. 371 pp. New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1995. $45.95. ISBN 0-87630-758-6.

This scholarly and generally balanced book provides a comprehensive review of developing knowledge about the clinical assessment and management of suspected sexual abuse of children. It includes contributions by 35 authors from five countries. The reader will find no cookbook recipes for discriminating true cases of alleged child sexual abuse from false ones here. Instead, there are chapters addressing children's sexual behavior, memory, language development, and understanding of truths, lies, and false beliefs. Special considerations in the evaluation of very young children, sexual abuse of adolescents, allegations by separated parents, ritual-abuse cases, and the abuse of children with disabilities are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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