Citation

Burgess AW, Welner M, Willis DG. J. Child Sex. Abus. 2010; 19(4): 387-402.

Affiliation

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA. burges@bc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10538712.2010.495045

PMID

20672208

Abstract

Sexual abuse by educators has become an increasingly noted type of sexual abuse, especially among adolescents, for two reasons. First, there is a potential for these cases to be silent and prolonged and second, when disclosed, the forensic implications usually include both criminal and/or civil sanctions. For forensic case evaluations, developmental traumatology, or the intersection of the traumatic event(s) at a particular age of the student, is often the evaluating framework. We report on two forensic cases of a female student and a male student to emphasize the dynamics of adolescent sexual victimization, its impact on adolescent development, and evidence-based practice for symptom identification and treatment.

Language: en