Based on research findings, author recommends training of medical staff on how to identify child abuse cases and how to report latter to appropriate agencies. Legal rights and responsibilities should be explained for both hospital administrators and medical staff. An interdisciplinary approach to treatment of child abuse cases is advocated. (SE)

Social workers must be part of an interdisciplinary approach to hospital services, particularly ambulatory services. Getting results is the only way social work can maintain its place in the health care system. (JAC)

Current efforts in sex education tend to focus on adolescent females rather than adolescent males. Parents, schools, community agencies, and religious institutions must be responsive to the adolescent male's need for knowledge about himself as a developing sexual person. (Author)