Annotated Bibliography on Appraisal

Abstract

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Examination of coping resources and family adaptation in mothers and daughters of incestuous versus nonclinical families.

“…Researchers are, in essence, only in the information-gathering stages of learning about the dynamics of incest and what types of treatment components are needed to successfully reconstruct these families. In the 1970s child sexual abuse became a major public concern in the United States (de Young, 1985). Interest in child sexual abuse became even greater in the 1980s, as advocacy and research efforts attempted to help protect victims and advance a better clinical understanding of the increasing numbers of incestuous families coming to the attention of mental health professionals.…”

“…Studies characterized the nature of the offender and speculated on treatment alternatives for offenders (e.g., Gebhard et al, 1965). In some early research, the mother was typically given only minimal attention in the research and her role was simply characterized as a member of the “incestuous triad” (Browning & Boatman, 1977; de Young, 1985; Garrett & Wright, 1975; Justice & Justice, 1979). Other anecdotal and descriptive studies, however, characterized mothers of incest victims as dependent, unable to cope with everyday problems, emotionally fragile, disabled or incapacitated by physical or mental illness or alcoholism, having a poor self-image, feeling inadequate as a wife, and non-nurturing in their behavior (Finkelhor, 1979; Geiser, 1979; Herman & Hirschman, 1980, 1981; Mayer, 1983; Parkes, 1984).…”

Appraisal Practices in Web Archives

“…While archives have existed for millenia (Posner, 1972), it is only over the past several hundred years that archivists have developed the concept of appraisal in order to manage the ever increasing deluge of records, that has been brought upon them, largely by the technologies of record production. Three years before the web was first prototyped by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Young (1985) at the Bentley Historical Library reviewed the literature of archival appraisal in the United States and found 178 monographs, articles, reports and unpublished manuals. A search in 2018 for appraisal after 1985 in Library and Information Science Source yields some 300 more.…”

A conceptual model for judging the truthfulness of a young child's allegation of sexual abuse.

“…Since the definition of child sexual abuse as a social problem, the literature has been rife with references to behavioral, emotional, and physical symptoms of that abuse 13 , 14 . The vast majority of these studies forego empirical methods and rely, instead, on clinical assessments of samples of sexually abused children; 1 , 42 retrospective reviews of hospital, mental health center, or court records; 3 , 6 case studies of small samples of sexually abused children with similar symptomatology; 12 , 31 and theoretical approaches that hypothesize as to the types of symptoms that are likely to be seen or that review the symptoms detailed in the literature 16 , 46 .…”