Citation

Mantell DM. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1988; 58(4): 618-621.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3228167

Abstract

A review of several hundred court cases involving child sexual abuse allegations has shown that both children and adults make false reports. Various kinds of false reports are defined, described, and grouped according to type: misunderstandings, misreporting, distortion through illness, distortion by design, professional error, misrepresentation, and a grouping of less common instances.

Language: en