This handbook CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Intervention and Treatment Issues dated 1993 by Kathleen Faller is lacking in scientific basis and is so biased. For example, a caseworker with no background in child psychology who sees an anorexic 12 y.o. who has eating disorder will right away suspect child sexual abuse. A lot of the symptoms/signs here can be found in teenagers whose root problem is something else -- for example, divorce, or single working mom who's never home, or lack of stable family, constant moving, mom changes boyfriends/live-in partners every now and then, etc.
This has appendix on how they do risk assessment of sex offender. A lot of the questions have the presumptions that the child was not lying, and that the alleged perpetrator was guilty. If it is a false allegation, the alleged sex offender is doomed to fail this risk assessment, so that he not only gets a chance to be with the alleged victim, but he also had armed the DHHS of a "document" that shows he is a risk. [Lesson: Never take the risk assessment. It is a lose-lose situation. Maintain your innocence and exercise you constitutional right against self-incrimination.]
DHHS Guidelines on Child Sexual Abuse
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