Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases

The late Brian Corby was a senior lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. He specialized in child protection studies and has been the author of two previous books on the subject.

• Introduction. 1. History and Ideas. 2. Developing a Response to Child Sexual Abuse. 3. Aims and Methodology. 4. Setting the Scene. 5. The Cases. 6. Investigating Child Sexual Abuse. 7. Protecting Children and Helping Families - The Child Protection Conference. 8. Ongoing Work with Families in the Six-Month Period following the Conference. 9. Two Years On from the Initial Conference. 10. Social Work Practice and Child Sexual Abuse. 11. Managing Child Sexual Abuse: Policy Issues. Appendix 1: The Forty Case Studies, by Category. Appendix 2: View from the Parents. References. Index.

Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases is easy to read, flowing consistently over eleven chapters. Corby makes use of subtitles to assist the reader and the material is both logical and relevant. Corby tracks through history the various attitudes and reactions to child sexual abuse, before discussing how current thinking has impacted on current practice... Overall Corby offers the reader interesting opinions on how societal opinion informs our practice. His proposals for improving intervention do much to enhance the ongoing debate on how social workers can improve practice which will benefit the families in the long-term, as well as offer protection in the immediate-term for the children.