title: Early treatment of child incest victims.
abstract: The author addresses the conduct of beginning psychotherapeutic work with incestuously assaulted children from preschool through adolescent ages. She sets forth a conceptualization of early treatment that includes knowledge of risk factors; identification of cases; physical and laboratory evaluations; and crisis treatment. She relates in detail specific techniques and tools used in interviewing that augment the clinician's psychiatric understanding of the child incest victim.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012306:Risk