The effectiveness of prevention education that also emphasizes immediate disclosure of abuse must be evaluated.

Prevention programs need to include encouragement of appropriate touching and nurturance.

Preparent education and training of child care providers needs to be available on issues of child sexual abuse, sexuality as it relates to developmental stages of children, and confronting molestation in one's own past.

Effective treatment programs for perpetrators must be developed, as well as counseling centers where individuals who recognize that they may have problems relating sexually to children can go for help before abuse occurs.

Extended treatment programs are needed for child victims who show signs of identification with their abuse or any indications of potential abusiveness.

Important advances have been made in the past 5 years with regard to the identification, evaluation, and treatment of young sexually abused children. Perhaps the most important of these has been the rapidly increasing public and professional recognition of the existence of this problem, together with the realization that most of the children affected by it are either too young to describe it, too immature to understand it, or too frightened to report it. Our society finally appears to be willing to take a stronger position of child advocacy and child protection concerning a problem from which, historically, it has turned away in disgust and disbelief.

More than 80 years of denial and suppression of the existence of child sexual abuse by the Freudian establishment have finally given way to a new surge of research, publication in the professional literature, and national attention in the media. The prevalence of child sexual abuse is surely an instance where we have had to relinquish blind illusions in favor of unpleasant realities. Increased public awareness that preschool age children can be objects of violence, exploitation, and sexual perversion has put pressure on those systems responsible for responding to this problem. Advances in medicine, law enforcement, and clinical services, such as the use of colposcopy and some of the evaluation techniques described in this book, have no doubt been accelerated by media attention and the rapidly increasing number of reported cases. (see SEXUALLY ABUSED CHILDREN | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRAINING: RECOMMENDATION FOR PREVENTION PART IV)

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