Child Sexual Abuse Recurrence: A Narrative Review

Rachel Wildfeuer, Julia M. Kobulsky, J. M. Reyes
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Child sexual abuse recurrence can have a detrimental and devastating effect on victims. Less is known, however, about the risk and protective factors associated with child sexual abuse recurrence. In order to better understand these risk and protective factors, a narrative review was conducted of the current literature. Academic databases, cited references, and reference lists were searched for peer-reviewed research that focused on sexual abuse recurrence prior to age 18 years. The risk and protective factors identified in the literature were organized into four a priori categories based on an ecological systems framework: child, characteristics of the maltreatment, family, and community/social systems. Examples of risk factors at each level were child mental health concerns (child), the perpetrator being the mother’s significant other (characteristics of the maltreatment), parental history of sexual abuse (family), and active or prior child welfare involvement (community/social systems). Only two protective factors were identified, both regarding the family: family social support and a parent believing the child’s report of the initial victimization. There were mixed or inconclusive findings for several factors. Overall, the review indicates that tertiary prevention, including child-, caregiver-, and perpetrator-focused strategies, should be employed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance the protective factors for child sexual abuse recurrence. Further research is needed to address protective factors and community/social systems factors and could, building on this narrative review, involve a systematic review of the child sexual abuse recurrence literature.
儿童性虐待复发:叙述性回顾
儿童性虐待的复发可能对受害者产生有害和毁灭性的影响。然而,关于儿童性虐待复发的风险和保护因素所知甚少。为了更好地了解这些风险和保护因素,我们对目前的文献进行了叙述性的回顾。学术数据库,引用的参考文献和参考文献列表被搜索了同行评审的研究,重点是18岁之前的性虐待复发。根据生态系统框架,将文献中确定的风险和保护因素分为四个先验类别:儿童、虐待特征、家庭和社区/社会系统。每个级别的风险因素包括儿童心理健康问题(儿童)、施暴者是母亲的重要伴侣(虐待的特征)、父母的性虐待史(家庭)以及积极或先前参与儿童福利(社区/社会系统)。只确定了两个保护因素,都是关于家庭的:家庭社会支持和父母相信孩子最初受害的报告。有几个因素的发现是混合的或不确定的。综上所述,三级预防包括以儿童为中心、以照料者为中心和以施暴者为中心的策略,应用于减轻儿童性虐待复发的风险因素和增强保护因素。需要进一步的研究来解决保护因素和社区/社会系统因素,并可以在此叙述审查的基础上,涉及对儿童性虐待复发文献的系统审查。
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