Child Sexual Abuse - The Child's Experience

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2018

The current descriptive analysis sought to identify the emotional and psychosocial problems experienced by children who have been sexually abused. Of 518 children with a history of sexual abuse who applied to the Child Protection Center, 443 were included in the study. Approximately 71.6% of children were subject to sexual abuse entailing penetration, whereas 69% were subject to sexual abuse not entailing penetration. After-effects reported included despair (46.5%), fear of reoccurrence of the incident (52.8%), distrust of others (36.8%), difficulty sleeping (32.7%), negative expectations about the future (32.1%), and self-blame (31.1%). Nurses have crucial roles and functions in the protection, improvement, treatment, and rehabilitation of the health of children who have been sexually abused.

International journal of academic research in business & social sciences, 2024

For children to develop in a healthy manner, they must have positive and healthy experiences. On the other hand, some children have gone through traumatic events as a result of early sexual abuse. X, a sixteen-year-old girl, was sexually abused by her own brothers from the age of six until fifteen. She was sexually abused and assaulted by her two brothers more than 20 times, and she has suffered from traumatic experiences up until this point. X experiences a range of symptoms, including behavior, emotion, physiology, spiritual, irrational beliefs and maladaptive coping. X acknowledges that the traumatic experience she went through is still plaguing her and that she needs assistance to deal with all the fallout. In order to support victims of child sexual abuse like X in her future development, it is hoped that the findings of this study will aid future researchers in creating and establishing a helping model.

Journal of Trauma & Treatment, 2015

There is a common belief that one's home is one's shelter. It provides safety and predictability, and as such it is experienced as a point of departure and a landing pad. Similarly, one's body is perceived by humans to be their souls' home, and as such the body is attributed the characteristics of a home. The body is the soul's private space. Evidence indicates that people exhibit strong physical and emotional reactions to personal space violations [12] that are produced by the amygdala, particularly if the intimate zone reserved for loved ones, is invaded. People view their personal space serving as buffer vis-à-vis the external world, and it is essential that they experience control and responsibility over it [13]. Sexually penetrating a child's body means breaking into the child's personal space, invading the child's intimate zone. This violation

When I was five years old, I was sexually abused by a friend of my mother's, the abuse continued for about a year. The day my sixteen year old brother heard what had been happening he confronted the perpetrator. During their argument my brother was brutally murdered. I have always felt a sense of guilt for his death.

International journal of …, 2011

ABSTRACT. By means of a meta-analytic review, the current study investigated the efficacy of the psychological treatment of children and adolescents that have suffered sexual abuse. Thirty-three articles met our selection criteria and, using the group as the analysis unit, the ...

Confronting Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse

Development and Symptomatology A s we consider the child who is being sexually abused, we must look first at what is normal sexual development throughout childhood and then at how sexual abuse affects children of different ages. HEALTHY SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT ________________________ The healthy sexual development of children differs based on a variety of variables, including societal expectations and the culture in which a child is raised. For example, several generations ago, children were not expected to be sexually active as early as they are today. But exposure to sexually explicit information through the media and other factors has increased the knowledge of youth today at earlier ages. In addition, some cultures expect that young children should be shielded from sexual information until later in childhood or adolescence. Still other cultures expose their young people to sexual relations and birth as normal parts of life. Recently, a number of organizations in collaboration produced the National Sexuality Education Standards (Future of Sex Education Initiative, 2012) that outlined what these organizations believe are the current needs of children in grades K-12 for sexuality education. From this document, as well as other contemporary sources, it is possible to put together a very generalized picture of the sexual development of children (see Table 4.1). These assumptions about children's sexual development give us some perspective as we continue the discussion of how children are impacted at specific ages by being sexually abused. But again this must be tempered by the recognition of an individual child's life construct and culture.

Journal of Personality Assessment, 2006

We present a case example of a 9-year-old, biracial girl and her mother. We integrate data collected from rating scales (e.g., Child Behavior Checklist; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001), a free response measure (Thematic Apperception Test;, and a direct observation measure (Parent-Child Interaction Assessment-II; Holigrocki, ) and reveal how a child sexual abuse victim's internal representations and symptoms manifest in both an interpersonal context and in the realm of play. We discuss assessment findings regarding how they provide for an idiographic understanding of the child.

American Journal of orthopsychiatry, 1985

A framework is proposed for a more systematic understanding of the effects of child sexual abuse. Four traumagenic dynamics -traumatic sexualization, betrayal, stigmatization, and powerlessness -are identified as the core of the psychological injury inflicted by abuse. These dynamics can be used to make assessments of victimized children and to anticipate problems to which these children may be vulnerable subsequently. Implications for research are also considered.

Journal of Medical Sciences

Sexual abuse has existed since ancient times, in all strata of every society, but has remained under reported. The few cases that do get reported are an important source of knowledge about the patterns and consequences of abuse. Following five vignettes show-case abuse experience and sequelae in the victims. The victims experienced trauma between the age of 4 to 12 years, three of them were males and four were the eldest issues in their families. In four cases the perpetrator was a relative. None of the subjects was abused by more than one perpetrator and only one was abused continuously over the years. The commonest manifestations were anxiety, depression, dissociation, somatization and obsessive traits. All these facts would hold a key value for clinicians posed with challenges of evaluating abuse patients. (JK-Practitioner 2006;13(Suppl 1):S79-S81 S Keywords : Childhood sexual abuse, anxiety, depression, dissociation, somatization

Sexual abuse has existed since ancient times, in all strata of every society, but has remained under reported. The few cases that do get reported are an important source of knowledge about the patterns and consequences of abuse. Following five vignettes show-case abuse experience and sequelae in the victims. The victims experienced trauma between the age of 4 to 12 years, three of them were males and four were the eldest issues in their families. In four cases the perpetrator was a relative. None of the subjects was abused by more than one perpetrator and only one was abused continuously over the years. The commonest manifestations were anxiety, depression, dissociation, somatization and obsessive traits. All these facts would hold a key value for clinicians posed with challenges of evaluating abuse patients.