caa a22 4500 606153268 CHVBK 20210128100553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11121-015-0553-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11121-015-0553-z Parent-Focused Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse [Elektronische Daten] [Tamar Mendelson, Elizabeth Letourneau] Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious public health issue. Current after-the-fact approaches to treating victims and punishing offenders are not adequate to address a problem of this magnitude; development and rigorous evaluation of CSA prevention strategies are critical. We propose that CSA prevention efforts should target parents of young children. Parents have been neglected as a focus of CSA prevention; they merit attention given their potential to improve children's safety via effective communication and monitoring. This paper provides an overview of current strategies for reducing CSA prevalence and their limitations, presents a rationale for parent-focused CSA prevention, and discusses considerations pertinent to development of an effective parent-focused approach. Parent-focused CSA prevention offers potential as a public health approach to prevention of CSA, and it is time that we devote resources toward developing and studying this important area. Society for Prevention Research, 2015 Child sexual abuse nationallicence Prevention nationallicence Parent intervention nationallicence Mendelson Tamar Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA aut Letourneau Elizabeth Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA aut Prevention Science Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 16/6(2015-08-01), 844-852 1389-4986 16:6<844 2015 16 11121 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0553-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0553-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mendelson Tamar Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Letourneau Elizabeth Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prevention Science Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 16/6(2015-08-01), 844-852 1389-4986 16:6<844 2015 16 11121