Citation

Conte JR, Fogarty L, Collins ME. J. Fam. Violence 1991; 6(2): 149-166.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 60637 Chicago, Illinois

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00978716

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A sample of 276 professionals described how they spend their professional time, their attitudes and knowledge about etiology and treatment of sexual abuse. Professionals were also asked to respond to a case vignette where varied on two dimensions: age of the child victim and relationship of the offender to the victim. Agencies receiving the questionnaire were randomly assigned to one of the six possible scenario conditions resulting from the two dimensions.