Re: victim disclosure changes question

["Frederick Strieder" <FSTRIEDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The publication noted below may be help.
Interviewing for Child Sexual Abuse  
by Melisssa McDermott Steinmetz, A.C.S.W.
Jalice Publishers
Notre Dame, Indiana

Frederick H. Strieder, PhD
Center for Families
University of Maryland School of Social  Work 
525 West Redwood Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
E-mail fstriede@ssw.umaryland.edu
Phone 410-706-5479 
Fax 410-706-6046

>>> GBlasin774@aol.com 01/04/01 12:36AM >>>
Colleagues,

I have been asked by a local detective about publications regarding the 
phenomenon of child sexual abuse victims changing (increasing) the amount of 
abuse they disclose after the initial (lesser) disclosures. There is a local 
court case that he is anticipating a defense attorney attempting to discredit 
an adolescent males' disclosures because at the initial disclosure to law 
enforcement was significantly less detailed than subsequent interviews 
generated. 

Clinically and anecdotally I am not surprised that a victim would become more 
comfortable with discussing issues, but cannot recall a peer reviewed or 
emperically evaluated publication on the topic. 

Any help would be appreciated. 

Regards,
Gerry D. Blasingame, MA
LMFT
New Directions to Hope
Redding and Red Bluff, CA


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