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The Diagnosis of Child Sexual Abuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Arnon Bentovim
Arnon Bentovim*
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Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London and The Tavistock Clinic, London
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Kempe, in an address to the International Association for Child Abuse and Neglect in 1979, drew the professional communities' attention to ‘the serious plight of sexually abused children’. He described this as the final stage in the communities' recognition of patterns of child abuse. This cycle had commenced with his recognition of ‘The Battered Child Syndrome’ in the early 60s.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 9 , September 1987 , pp. 295 - 299
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