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COURT ORDERED EVALUATIONS FOR FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE

Posted by Leigh Baker
Category: Child Sexual Abuse, coaching, false allegations of sexual abuse, High Conflict Divorce, parental alienation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Sexual Predators, Traumatized Children Treatment

                                                 SPECIAL ISSUE EVALUATIONS CONDUCTING COURT ORDERED ASSESSMENTS FOR ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE A majority of child sexual assaults are never reported to the police. From those children who do report abuse, a small percentage of those children make false allegations. The statistics vary from state to state, […]

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Unconscious Transmission of Trauma in Young Children Alleging Sexual Abuse

Posted by Leigh Baker
Category: High Conflict Divorce, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Sexual Predators, Traumatized Children Treatment

Unconscious Transmission of Trauma in Young Children Alleging Sexual Abuse             A growing number of sexual abuse allegations in young children occur every day in the context of high conflict divorce or custody cases. These cases cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, and countless hours of legal and mental health professionals’ time […]

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Why Children Make False Allegations of Sexual Abuse

Posted by Leigh Baker
Category: Child Sexual Abuse, High Conflict Divorce, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Sexual Predators

Why Children Make False Allegations about Sexual Abuse By Leigh M. Baker, Psy.D.             I recently read a harrowing account of the infamous witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. For a little over 9 months, this New England settlement was bombarded by allegations of male and female witches flying on their broomsticks to attend […]

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Ask Dr. Leigh: Survivor’s Guilt

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Category: ask Dr. Leigh, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

A victim of one of the recent disasters that has struck our country wrote to ask me why she is feeling so much guilt over surviving when others were wounded or had family members killed. Survivor’s guilt is common. So common in fact that it was labeled a symptom in an older version of the Diagnostic […]

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Ask Dr. Leigh: Can survivors of childhood sexual abuse heal?

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Category: ask Dr. Leigh, Child Sexual Abuse, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

Ask Dr. Leigh: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse “I am an adult survivor of long term sexual abuse and trauma. 
Is there hope for me that I can ever heal from so much pain?” Over the past twenty-seven years, countless survivors of childhood trauma and sexual abuse have asked me this question. They wonder, […]

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Protecting Your Children from Sexual Predators

Book Cover - Protecting Your Children from Sexual PredatorsMore than one million American families reported cases of sexual abuse in 2000. The perpetrators of these acts come in all shapes and sizes...

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September 17, 2018 by Dr. Leigh Baker

THE SILENT PREDATORS/ A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

  I have spent my entire professional career studying, treating, and writing about child sexual abuse. I have extensive professional experience in the wide spectrum of sexual abuse from the predator to the child victim. In the past thirty years, I have witnessed rise and fall of sexual abuse Sexual abuse seems to dip in […]

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