NCJ Number
142152
Date Published
1992
Length
173 pages
Annotation
The counseling of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse is discussed by identifying significant healing processes necessary for recovery.
Abstract
These processes include disclosing the abuse, focusing on the abuse experience, reinterpreting the abuse from an adult point of view, addressing issues related to the context of the abuse, making desired life changes, and dealing with abuse resolution issues. The chapters explore appropriate counseling interventions that facilitate resolution, describe issues and interventions applicable to varied types of childhood sexual abuse, and provide case examples throughout. Different specific relationship combinations of offenders and victims are not discussed, as the emphasis here is on the overall closeness of the relationship, which seems to have the greatest impact on the victim's perceptions of the psychological experience of the abuse. The book concentrates on individual counseling, although one chapter deals specifically with group therapy. 1 appendix and 107 references