Evaluating Therapeutic Intervention with Sexually Abused Children

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Monck

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 229 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-9136
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199708)6:3<163::aid-car307>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

The progress of sexually abused children attending communitybased treatment programmes run by selected voluntary agencies was evaluated on several dierent dimensions. By the end of the treatment programmes, improvement was apparent in the children's scores on the Children's Depression Inventory and selfesteem scores and in behaviour (CBCL) reports from parents. Young people over the age of 11 years reported for themselves improvements in the CBCL total problem and internalizing scores, but no improvement in the externalizing scores. The reasons why many therapists had diculty providing all the necessary information were explored in interviews with senior managers and suggestions are made for improving the ways in which abused children's progress through treatment can be evaluated.