Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: WHO Clinical Guidelines
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Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: WHO Clinical Guidelines
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Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is a gross violation of their rights and a global public health problem. It adversely affects the health of children and adolescents. Health care providers are in a unique position to provide an empathetic response to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused. Such a response can go a long way in helping survivors recover from the trauma of sexual abuse.
WHO has published new clinical guidelines Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused aimed at helping front-line health workers, primarily from low resource settings, in providing evidence-based, quality, trauma-informed care to survivors. The guidelines emphasize the importance of promoting safety, offering choices and respecting the wishes and autonomy of children and adolescents. They cover recommendations for post-rape care and mental health; and approaches to minimizing distress in the process of taking medical history, conducting examination and documenting findings.
Copyright © World Health Organization 2017.
Sections
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Glossary
- Executive summary
- Summary of guiding principles
- Summary of recommendations (R) and good practice statements (GP)
- 1. Background
- 2. Methods
- 3. Guiding principles derived from ethical principles and human rights standards
- 4. Recommendations and good practice statements
- 5. Implementation considerations
- 6. Research implications
- 7. Dissemination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- 8. Updating the guideline
- References
- ANNEX 1. Guideline contributors
- ANNEX 2. Implications of the strength of the recommendation
- ANNEX 3. International and regional human rights treaties and consensus documents containing safeguards that are relevant for child and adolescent sexual abuse
- ANNEX 4. List of supplementary materials in Web Annexes
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