Child sexual abuse: A social work categorization

Abstract

Abstract The Cleveland enquiry has exposed the limited focus of social workers' assessment procedures in child sexual abuse investigations. Such procedures, far more widespread than merely in Cleveland, have evolved from the experiences, expertise, and authority of professions other than social work. They have been adopted universally in the absence of an adequate social work categorization of child sexual abuse There is an urgent need for a categorization of child sexual abuse, purely from the social work perspective. This article attempts to point the way.