NCJ Number
159612
Date Published
1995
Length
257 pages
Annotation
Written primarily for professionals who work with sexually abused boys, this volume presents a new therapeutic model for understanding and treating both male and female child sexual abuse victims.
Abstract
The model is largely based on three basic interpersonal and developmental processes that affect the dynamics of the recovery process. These are attachment, dysregulation, and self-theory. The introduction emphasizes that therapy is rarely viewed positively by boys, because they prefer not to talk in ways that make them feel vulnerable. Thus, the time for engaging the boy and developing rapport is often brief. An introductory chapter presents a case example, explains current theories, and presents the integrated contextual model to be detailed in subsequent chapters. It also cites the gender and sociocultural differences that influence individual, group, and family therapy and discusses the preconditions to treatment and the importance of assessment. The next three sections detail the concepts of attachment, dysregulation, and self-theory and the individual, group, and family therapy techniques related to each concept. Tables, sample dialogues between the therapist and the child or parent, appended behavior inventory and goal attainment scale, index, and approximately 300 references