Preventive Health Measures for Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Author: Robin M Mathy
Help lesbian and bisexual women better manage their physical health
The lack of information about lesbian and bisexual women's health can in part be attributed to the lack of health research focused on this population. Preventive Health Measures for Lesbian and Bisexual Women helps fill this gap by providing the latest empirical, evidence-based research to address current health care issues confronted by sexual minority women (SMW). This vital source explores several diverse factors constraining the ability of lesbian and bisexual women of color to receive proper health care and exercise preventative health measures including discrimination, oppression, and stigmatization.
The reasons behind several SMW health risks are psychosocial and behavioral factors often not considered by health practitioners. Preventive Health Measures for Lesbian and Bisexual Women examines these factors in detail and provides a firm starting point for further research and ways to best address the challenges. Studies on SMW behavior and perceptions reveal how lesbians and bisexual women make choices on various vital health issues such as alcohol use, nutrition, weight management, exercise, safer sex practices, sunscreen use, and self-breast examination. The research in this book is of the highest quality, the discussions on the findings top-notch, and the conclusions important for every policymaker, health practitioner, and researcher to understand.
Research topics in Preventive Health Measures for Lesbian and Bisexual Women include:
• the effects of lesbian or bisexual identity on preventative health behaviors
• cancer prevention and screening behaviors using American Cancer Societyguidelines as the standards for comparison
• experiences with treating physicians and their attitudes—positive and negative
• ways to help lesbians with cancer receive better support by service providers and lesbian communities
• comparison between lesbian and heterosexual women of psychosocial responses to treatment for breast cancer
• qualitative study on lesbians who frequent bars
• characteristics of sexual minority women across four survey sampling methods
Preventive Health Measures for Lesbian and Bisexual Women is timely, crucial information for health practitioners of all types, women's activists, public health professionals, and researchers.
Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors
Author: Charles L Whitfield
Successfully navigate the minefield of misinformation that can prevent justice from being done in child sexual abuse cases!From the Foreword, by Robert Geffner, PhD, editor of the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse: “Too often, the public and some professionals have been misled by media publicity and articles . . . that appear scientific, but in reality, are biased opinions or over-generalized research. Forensic cases are being decided in many courts based upon the recommendations of so-called 'expert witnesses’who do not actually know the clinical research or understand the dynamics of such abusive relationships.”This much-needed book points out and corrects misinformation that everyone who works with victims, offenders, or families in which sexual abuse has occurred needs to understand clearly. Especially vital in today's political climate, Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors gives you state-of-the-science information on such myths as “false memory syndrome,” “recovered memory therapy,” and the “lack of harm” to some sexually abused boys.Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors examines:
- forensic issues, including the “false memory” defense and how the long-term impact of childhood sexual abuse is often misrepresented in court
- three separate expert examinations of Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman's well-known--and often misrepresented--review of long-term child sexual abuse outcomes
- treatment recommendations and guidelines for addressing the memory controversy in clinical practice
- the fascinating casehistory/cautionary tale of the child molester Robert Halsey, who was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in 1993, and how public and academic resources were misused to claim he was wrongly convicted
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Seeking to correct media and "expert witness" misrepresentations concerning child sexual abuse (CSA) and its long-term outcomes, Dr. Whitfield (alcohol studies, Rutgers U., NJ) and his co-editors introduce themes examined in eight articles on what has been identified as a major public health issue, including: societal denial, disinformation as a legal defense strategy, and clinical implications of "false memory syndrome." Also includes critiques of a controversial meta-analysis (Rind, et al., 1998) minimizing CSA sequelae, and a case history of misguided efforts to exonerate a child molester. Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, v.9, nos.3/4, 2001. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Exposing Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors | 1 | |
| Crisis or Creation? A Systematic Examination of "False Memory Syndrome" | 9 | |
| The Legend of Robert Halsey | 37 | |
| The "False Memory" Defense: Using Disinformation and Junk Science In and Out of Court | 53 | |
| (Mis) Representations of the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Courts | 79 | |
| Science or Propaganda? An Examination of Rind, Tromovitch and Bauserman (1998) | 109 | |
| A Critical Appraisal of the 1998 Meta-Analytic Review of Child Sexual Abuse Outcomes Reported by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman | 135 | |
| The Real Controversy About Child Sexual Abuse Research: Contradictory Findings and Critical Issues Not Addressed by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman in Their 1998 Outcomes Meta-Analysis | 157 | |
| Implications of the Memory Controversy for Clinical Practice: An Overview of Treatment Recommendations and Guidelines | 183 | |
| Index | 211 |
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