Counseling adult survivors of child sexual abuse. By Christiane Sanderson. London, England and Bristol, Pennsylvania: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2nd Edition, 1995, 304 pages. Paperback $24.95
✍ Scribed by Tatjana K. Schulz
- Book ID
- 102442339
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
Counseling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse provides a comprehensive overview of various theories of sexual abuse and implications for eclectic treatment. The author, Christiane Sanderson, addresses several theoretical approaches to child sexual abuse and provides a helpful in-depth historical overview dating back to Freud's Oedipus Complex. In her presentation of these theoretical approaches, she provides her personal assessment and opinion of the inherent limitations of these approaches. Noteworthy is Finkelhor's presentation of the "Four Preconditions to Sexual Abuse Model." The book also provides a detailed review of the longterm effects of child sexual abuse covering the gamut of emotional effects, interpersonal effects, behavioral effects, cognitive/perceptual effects, and physical effects.
Chapter 4, "The Impact of Child Sexual Abuse" provides a detailed and precise discussion on specific factors which impact differentially on children who have been sexually abused. The same chapter provides a par-