The problems with incest are relevant to the field of social work. Social workers involved in the area of child welfare would need to understand and empathize with these children and their families. It is essential for social workers to realize the pain of the child who is unable or unwilling to disclose the experience. Once the child discloses the information on the story, the journey becomes even harder. This i

Child Abuse & Neglect: “Working with childhood sexual abuse” is an article that depicts the different ways researchers have attempted to seek the knowledge of practitioners in dealing with sexually abused children. One of the methods used by the researchers were surveys sent out to all mental health professionals. “Unsurprisingly, the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse has been shown consistently to be higher in psychiatric populations” (Bagley & Ramsay, 1985; Carmen, Rieker, & Mills, 1984). The purpose of the research was to determine if factors such as age, gender, etc., had an effect and impact on the staff working with child sexual abuse, and to examine if the clients need is being met. According to the article, a majority of the respondents of mental health clients had experienced childhood sexual abuse (Science-Direct, 2002).

Journal of Perspectives in Psychiatric Care: “Male survivors’ perspective of incest/sexual abuse” was an article that explained the end results incest has on the male gender. The emotional strain incest had on males produced feelings of anger, isolation, shame, and depression. An urge to sexually offend other children would also develop among these males. The information for the study was gathered by quantitative methods. There were 25 males interviewed by the researcher. Different personal experiences are given by the men throughout the article each explaining when the abuse started, the duration and the acts involved. Majority of the participants said that their families did not know about the abuse or denied that any sexual abuse had taken place. The ignorance of the incest by the victims’ family caused the victim to be isolated or distant within their own family unit (Ray, 2001). This article supports hypothesis 3.

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