This section also highlights such articles. Presents findings from a study that was undertaken to help clarify the relationship between gender and disability among abused children. The study indicated that boys represented a significantly larger proportion of physically abused, sexually abused, and neglected children with disabilities than would be expected from a respective proportion of abused and neglected children without disabilities. The study's findings indicate that the overall rate of child maltreatment is lower in the Army than in the general population. The results of this exploratory analysis define focus areas for child abuse prevention efforts.
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Discusses a study that identified some of the factors that influence psychologists' attitudes toward adult male survivors of sexual abuse. These factors include the characteristics of the psychologist, the perpetrator, and the victim. The study found that the psychologists' attitudes toward men, rather than the gender of the psychologists, predicted blaming attitudes. Practical suggestions for treatment are noted. The research reveals that mothers of incestuously abused children are not necessarily more disturbed psychologically than mothers of nonabused children, mothers respond in a variety of ways to their child's sexual victimization, and most mothers believe that their children have been abused.