Symptoms and Psychopathology Pictures Identified in Forensic Evaluations of Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Adolescence
Keywords:
Sexual abuse, symptoms, psychopathology, psychological expertise, psychiatric expertise, forensic evaluation.Abstract
This study investigated, in the context of forensic evaluation, the symptomatology and psychopathology identified in child and adolescent victims of alleged sexual abuse. For this purpose, 674 reports of psychological and psychiatric forensic evaluations from the Department of Legal Medicine of Rio Grande do Sul were analyzed. The alleged victims were aged between seven and 19 years old (M = 11.7; SD = 2.88), 82.8% were girls and 66.9% of the abuses were intra-familial. The variables age, sex and type of abuse (intra or extra-familial) were associated with the symptomatology and psychopathology identified in the reports. We concluded that, although there is no single symptomatology framework in victims of sexual abuse, some symptoms have greater prevalence according to age, sex and type of abuse. Therefore, these symptoms should be observed in the forensic psychological evaluation.
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