title: Therapeutic management of preschool cases of alleged but unsubstantiated sexual abuse.
abstract: Alleged sexual abuse among preschoolers is often difficult to substantiate, and is rarely criminally prosecuted. Yet very young children are vulnerable when abuse is suspected but cannot be proven. These cases call for a special form of structured therapeutic management that seeks to inhibit the possibility of abuse while buying time for these very young children so that potential later abuse can be reported more accurately.
authors.affiliation: Midwest Children's Resource Center, Children's Hospital, St. Paul, MN.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Hewitt
mesh_terms: D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008910:Minnesota; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*