Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure

Joseph Mooney is Assistant Professor of Social Work at University College Dublin.

• 1. Introduction 2. Child Sexual Abuse - Our Fragile Knowledge 3. Disclosure of Abuse 4. Threshold Concepts of Disclosure 5. Societal Responses to Disclosure 6. An Introduction to the Social Model 7. A Social Model of Disclosure 8. Conclusions

“A truly original and wonderfully humane contribution to understanding what helps and what hinders disclosure in the context of child sexual abuse. Written in a very accessible style, this will be an essential guide for those working with, and/or impacted by, this pervasive social problem.” - Brid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield