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Disclosures of sexual abuse: what do you do next?
Patrick Kinsella1, Margaret Uebergang
1MB, BCH, BAO, FRACGP, DCH, Senior General Practitioner, Gippsland Lakes Community Health, and Senior Medical Educator, Southern General Practice Training, Lakes Entrance, VIC.
Australian Family Physician
|March 16, 2015
Abstract
Background:
Sexual abuse, especially in childhood, often has severe and long-lasting clinical consequences, both physical and psychological.
Objective:
This article outlines an approach to use when patients disclose a history of sexual abuse, and provides some resources to call on in those circumstances.
Discussion:
This article addresses questions one might ask to uncover a history of sexual abuse, possible responses to disclosures of sexual abuse, and documentation of these disclosures.