Incest as Child Abuse: Research and Applications - Hardcover

"The issues addressed are pertinent and the authors' discussions are helpful in furthering our understanding of the complexities of incest. this book is a welcome addition to the literature on incest."-Social Casework ?The issues addressed are pertinent and the authors' discussions are helpful in furthering our understanding of the complexities of incest. this book is a welcome addition to the literature on incest.?-Social Casework ?The authors of this recent study of incest are known in the field of child abuse. The work includes a fairly comprehensive review of the literature, and presents the results of Vander Mey and Neff's original research. ... Incest as Child Abuse focuses on the records of 15 cases of incest reported to the Mississippi Department of Social Services. The book [has] a stronger assessment of theoretical models. Its primary contribution lies in the placement of incest within the broader context of child abuse. The authors' style is comfortable and relatively easy to read, given the complexity of some of the theoretical models. The book is well referenced and adequately indexed. . . . For libraries serving programs in sociology, psychology, social work, and counseling.?-Choice "The authors of this recent study of incest are known in the field of child abuse. The work includes a fairly comprehensive review of the literature, and presents the results of Vander Mey and Neff's original research. ... Incest as Child Abuse focuses on the records of 15 cases of incest reported to the Mississippi Department of Social Services. The book [has] a stronger assessment of theoretical models. Its primary contribution lies in the placement of incest within the broader context of child abuse. The authors' style is comfortable and relatively easy to read, given the complexity of some of the theoretical models. The book is well referenced and adequately indexed. . . . For libraries serving programs in sociology, psychology, social work, and counseling."-Choice

This book approaches as a serious and severe form of child abuse. While early research tended to portray victims as seductive provocateers, recent studies indicate that birth order, family configuration factors, personality, physical and socio-economic factors may predispose children to risk of incestuous victimization. Incest is associated with anti-social, deviant, illegal and/or self-destructive coping mechanisms in many victims. This book contains data from two sets of substantiated and investigated incest cases taken from official reports by the Department of Welfare in Mississippi and the Department of Welfare in Virginia. It compares the findings from these two data sets to further delineate risk factors and family variables found in incest families. The authors further compare the case studies with previous research findings in order to provide direction for future research, intervention and prevention.