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Volume 328:1580 May 27, 1993 Number 21

The Clinical Detective: Techniques in the Evaluation of Sexual Abuse

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By Aaron Noah Hoorwitz. 303 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 1992. $34.95. ISBN 0-393-70124-7.

This book has long been needed. It is a clear, concise, well-written treatise on the evaluation and management of sexual abuse in children and adolescents. It will be of most use to clinicians engaged in the psychological evaluation and treatment of abused children. It will also be of great value to therapists involved in judicial aspects of sexual abuse. Physicians and others on the front lines will also appreciate it when a clinical interview results in the disclosure of abuse or when in an emergency room setting.

The book is organized around the interview process. For example, the first chapters . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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