Responses to article:
CRITICAL COMMENTARY by Carol C. Buening, PhD, LISW
on the article 'Psychological Assessment of Children in The Family'
as published in 1996 by
Lawrence Lilliston & Gary Shepherd
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Coordinator: Check your fire, "Oldtimer!" It seems you have misdirected your response to Carol C. Buening, who in essence is in agreement with everything you are also pointing out. She was writing a CRITICAL commentary of the 'Psychological Assessment of Children in The Family' as published in 1996 by Lawrence Lilliston & Gary Shepherd.
-Buening's statement is that of a hired gun, the so-called "Family" has degenrated to the Scientologists pseudo-legal and the abuse of "science falsely so called".
Everything in her treatise is phony--the "evaluation" is supposed to be a next to last step in a multidisciplinary apparoach to evaluating effectiveness of a PS program, before accepting or discarding it.
A REAL evaluation includes some of the following (please see, for instance, http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic369.htm.
-Definition: the engaging of a child in sexual activities that the child cannot comprehend, for which the child is developmentally unprepared and cannot give informed consent, and violate the social taboos of society.
-The most important determinant for abuse is the child's (or a witness') account of the incident.
-Most of the morbidity associated with sexual abuse is a result of emotional and psychological trauma.
Reactions to sexual abuse can include posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, anger, impaired sense of self, dissociative phenomena, suicidal behavior, sexually reactive behaviors that are beyond the scope of normative child sexual development, and indiscriminate sexual behavior.
-Children suspected of being sexually abused require a behavioral, social, gynecologic, and general medical history. Sufficient information about the current incident of sexual abuse is needed to ensure that all needed evidence is properly collected.
-The history also should include questions regarding possible behavioral indicators of abuse.
Abrupt behavioral changes - Aggression, depression, suicidal behaviors, withdrawal, low self esteem, nightmares, phobias, regression, school problems
Self-destructive behaviors - Substance abuse, sleep disorders, prostitution
Sexualized behavior inappropriate for developmental level (eg, excessive masturbation, forcing sexual acts on other children)
Oldtimer <cperry26@houston.rr.com>
Houston, TX USA - May 11, 2004
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