DELAYED RECALL OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE - PSYCHIATRIC NURSINGS RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS

In no other area of psychiatric care is such suspicion being cast on c lients as in the area of delayed recall of childhood sexual abuse. Adu lt survivors of childhood abuse are encountered in nursing contexts of all kinds. Psychiatric nurses should be the ones that other nurses an d members of the public can look to for guidance and clinical wisdom a bout dissociative amnesia for childhood abuse. It is incumbent on psyc hiatric nurses, especially those who publish about clinical issues, to provide the most accurate and complete available knowledge, to priori tize clients' needs, and to recommend care that meets the highest stan dards. Copyright (C) 1996 by W.B. Saunders Company