This type of trauma is often secretive. So, too, is the experience of a child's perceiving a visit from a religious entity. This dissertation explored this double taboo using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Eight adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse revealed their lived experience of ...
At the same time, a growing body of observations links borderline personality disorder to sexual abuse and other forms of abuse and trauma in childhood. The aim of this study was to investigate among patients admitted for parasuicide the predictive value for outcome 7 years after the parasuicide...
Various types oftraumaticevents that can lead to post-traumaticstressdisorder (PTSD).Sexual abuseis a particularly sinister type of trauma because of theshameit instills in the victim. Withchildhoodsexualabuse, victims are often too young to know how to express what is happening and seek out hel...
This study evaluates the occurrence of psychopathology among 97 women who (1) experienced sexual abuse in childhood only, (2) were raped in adulthood only, (3) experienced both childhood sexual abuse and rape in adulthood, or (4) experienced no sexual trauma. Women were recruited from advertise...
Child Molestation or childhood sexual abuse is defined as the act of a person who forces, coerces or threatens a child to have any form of sexual contact .
Abuse causes trauma that prevents the target from articulating what is happening to them. trauma and fear also prevent the target from being able to find the right words to identify, unmask and call to account their tormentor Abuse causes (PTSD) and any thought, memory or reminder of the ab...
The study included 56 women aged 18 to 45 years with current major depression and either with or without a history of childhood sexual abuse, assessed by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Using standard cortical thickness analysis measures, investigators found a "marked reduction in the somatosensory...
traumaThis article presents a behavioral conceptualization of the difficulties associated with adult disclosure in psychotherapy of a history of childhood sexual abuse. Using a contemporary behavioral perspective and a functional analysis of various clinical presentations, we examine the factors that may ...
Themes: Sisters, Childhood sexual abuse, Homelessness, Foster care, Mental Health, Healing, Courage, Hope Book Jacket Synopsis: “Sometimes you’ve got a story you need to find the courage to tell.” Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison...
Therapists have been viewed as implanting "false" memo- ries that are revisited in the therapeuticprocess in excruciating detail, leaving the bearer of the memories with the same degree of traumaas if the abuse Children and youth in America: A documentary history. biopsychosocialsexual...