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Author Haynes-Seman, Clare

Title Children speak for themselves : using the Kempe interactional assessment to evaluate allegations of parent-child sexual abuse / by Clare Haynes-Seman, David Baumgarten
Published New York : Brunner/Mazel, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; CHILDREN SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. How to Turn a Problem into a Solution; Healthy and Unhealthy Attachment Relationships; Parent-Child Sexual Abuse as a Disorder of Attachment; Factors That Lead to and Maintain Incestuous Relationships; Dynamics and Relationships in Incestuous Families; Conclusion; 2. Design for a Complete and Objective Process: How to Get All the Information You Need; Interactional Assessment in the Context of Current Guidelines; Conclusion; 3. Evaluation Tasks, Skills, and Pitfalls
Obtaining Quality InformationClinical Training to Interpret Behavioral Observations; Transcription of the Videotaped Record of Sessions; Interpretation of Observation and Interview Information; Conclusion; 4. A Parent's Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Variations on a Theme; Identification with the Nonprotective Parent; Parents' Traumas Weave Together; Projection of Childhood Trauma onto Current Relationships; Conclusion; 5. Mothers and Grandmothers: Thinking the Unthinkable; A Name That Sounds Like "Daddy"; A Grandmother's Sexual Involvement with Her Granddaughter; Conclusion
6. Children Speak Through Metaphors, Stories, and Drawings"Monsters Have Lives Too"; "There's a Pair of Gloves That I Need"; Learning the Family Script; Father as Rescuer and Protector; Embedded Themes in Drawings; Conclusion; 7. Children Speak Through Behavioral Reenactments; Laura's Outcry; Things That Go Bump in the Night; Conclusion; 8. Behavioral Clues to Experiences; "In Me Bottom"; "That Nasty Ole Thing"; Conclusion; 9. Children Speak Through Words, Behavior, and Symbolic Play; "Stop, Daddy. Daddy, Stop"; "My Mom Is Here"; "Is Daddy Coming Today?"; "Don't You Want to Give Daddy a Hug?"
"The Baby Is Sleeping""Unless He Just Stumbled into It"; Conclusion; 10. Opportunities for the Helping Professions; Child Protection Opportunities; Treatment Opportunities; System Opportunities; Presentation in Court; Conclusion; References; Index
Summary Children Speak for Themselves examines the history, rationale, protocol, and theoretical bases for the Kempe Interactional Assessment and describes in detail the skills that are required and tasks that must be completed by the clinician in order to use the Kempe Interactional Assessment accurately and effectively. Firmly rooted in attachment theory, the Kempe Interactional Assessment is based on the fact that even preverbal and nonverbal children do "speak" for themselves about experiences with important people in their lives. By accurately recognizing, understanding, and translating children's communication, this method makes available for clinical and legal professionals crucial, firsthand information that might otherwise be ignored. In this book, you'll learn how the Kempe Interactional Assessment is comprised of three parts: a clinical interview with each parent in the presence of the child, videotaped observations of parent-child interactions, and an individual play interview with the child. Children Speak for Themselves presents highly detailed case illustrations that demonstrate the various ways that children communicate their experiences of sexual abuse and provide insight into how sexually abusing relationships develop and are maintained within a family system. These case studies also clearly illustrate the value of the Kempe Interactional Assessment when other techniques may not be effective - particularly when allegations involve young children, children caught up in an acrimonious divorce, or when the "outcry" is filtered through untreated survivors. The volume also examines how the Kempe Interactional Assessment can provide crucial clinical data about the qualities and dynamics of a family relationship that can reliably distinguish between sexually and nonsexually abusive relationships. Children Speak for Themselves will provide clinicians, attorneys, and other professionals involved in decision-making with a reliable clinical procedure that can not only easily reveal available data but can also help to uncover more covert information and verify whether abuse has occurred and by whom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Incest victims -- Psychological testing
Sexually abused children -- Psychological testing
Family assessment.
Interviewing in child abuse.
Child Abuse, Sexual -- diagnosis
Incest -- psychology
Interview, Psychological -- methods
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Family assessment
Interviewing in child abuse
Sexually abused children -- Psychological testing
Form Electronic book
Author Baumgarten, David
LC no. 94010231
ISBN 9781134860869
1134860862
9780203777244
0203777247
9781134861002
1134861001
9781134860937
1134860935
9781138869332
1138869333