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  • In sexual abuse the post-traumatic stress dis order is a clearly described DSM III diagnosis as are con duct problems, emotional disorders, personality disordered individuals, those addicted to alcohol, those with a variety among psychiatrists

  • We do have a real problem of describing family based phenomena in ways which are acceptable in a nosological sense

  • There is no whole issue of how we conceptualise sexual abuse can be training for doctors in child sexual abuse at present and if addressed. we have to accept someone as an expert we should make sure that there are training centres and such experts go The Hospitalsfor Sick Children through a complete training programme

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There are currently attempts to develop a typology of

As far as I know, child sexual abuse is not a disease family disorder which may bear fruit and help to categorise included in the international classification of diseases. It is problems such as the sexual abuse of children in a satisfac not an illness that is described in any major textbook of tory fashion. In ICD-9 we have to think of medicine, surgery, psychiatry or paediatrics. There are no sexual abuse as occurring on the psycho-social axis. Uniformly agreed diagnostic criteria to make this diagnosis

The problem is that the urgent question of children who
Dr Bentovim replies DEARSIRS
Canadian qualifications for British psychiatrists
Abuse and neglect of the elderly mentally infirm
DELYTHALLDRICK Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff
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