This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background of sexual offenders; effects of sexual abuse on children, of offender removal from the home and of reunification and the prognosis for incest offenders after treatment. Within this context the immediate problems of local practitioners dealing with real life instances are highlighted and discussed.This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background of sexual offenders; effects of sexual abuse on children, of offender removal from the home and of reunification and the prognosis for incest offenders after treatment. Within this context the immediate problems of local practitioners dealing with real life instances are highlighted and discussed.PART ONE: CONTEXT: DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILY SEXUAL ABUSE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Child Sexual Abuse - Jon R Conte Looking Backward and Forward The Minnesota Family Sexual Abuse Project - Margaret J Bringewatt PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING FAMILY SEXUAL ABUSE AND ITS EFFECTS Families After Sexual Abuse - Carolyn J Levitt, Greg Owen and Jeanette Truchsess What Helps? What is Needed? Effects of Probable Sexual Abuse on Preschool Children - S K Hewitt and W N Friedrich Taking Sibling Incest Seriously - Michael J O'Brien Intergenerational Transmission of Child Sexual Abuse and Maltreatment - Jane F Gilgun Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse in American Indian Families - Irl Carter and Lawrence J Parker PART THREE: EVALUATING TREATMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Evaluation of a Multiple-Family Incest Treatment Program - Deborah L Woodworth Family Effects of Offender Removal fromlҬ