Child Sexual Abuse and Its Impact on The Developing Brain, An Annotated Bibliography

1) “Child Sexual Abuse, Traumatic Experiences, and Their Impact on the Developing Brain”

Gaskill, Richard L. and Perry, Bruce D. (2012) “Child Sexual Abuse, Traumatic Experiences, and Their Impact on the Developing Brain” Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment. Online. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118094822.ch2/pdf Annotated Bibliography: In this article, the author is making an argument that sexual abuse causes brain development problems in the long run. These children gain “a less flexible state of equilibrium” (Gaskill 37). They then become poor socialized and have problems in regards to emotional and physical health. In order to these children, they need to be helped immediately, giving them regular and uniform help in regards socialization with others.

2) “The links between early childhood trauma and major mental illness: Psychiatry’s response?”

Haliburn, Joan. (2004) “The links between early childhood trauma and major mental illness: Psychiatry’s response?” Aust N Z J Psychiatry. Online. DOI: 10.1177/0004867414527178 http://anp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/04/0004867414527178.full.pdf+html Annotated Bibliography:
In this article the author discusses the relation between mental illness and childhood traumas. It takes its information from mental health patients. The article discusses studies from two other authors. I don’t find the paper to be as helpful because it is basically discussing two other papers in the paper itself. Personally, I do find that this article will be too helpful. Yes, it does explain the relation between early childhood trauma and mental illness but it will only talk about mental illness. It will not discuss social or physical problems du...

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...le to create our project. The way we will probably use this paper is by using all the different outcomes this author gives on the social and emotional outcomes of children who have been sexually abuse.

6) “Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse– Later Criminal Consequences”

Widom, Cathy. (1995) “Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse– Later Criminal Consequences” National Institute of Justice. Online. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/abuse.pdf Annotated Bibliography: In this article, the author discusses how it is more likely that when a person is an abused when young, can cause deviance to emerge when older, leading to criminality. The author also concludes that a person that was sexually abused when young were more likely to do sex crimes. Their research also founds that persons that were sexually abused when young, were more likely to be arrested for prostitution.