AbstractsPsychology
The adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse handbook
| Institution: | California State University – Northridge |
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| Department: | Department of Educational Psychology & Couns |
| Degree: | MS |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Keywords: | Adult survivors; Dissertations, Academic – CSUN – Education – Educational Psychology and Counseling – Marriage and Family Therapy. |
| Record ID: | 2061811 |
| Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/135619 |
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to create a handbook to provide information, insight, and therapeutic interventions to assist adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in their therapeutic process, and provide tools to professionals working in this counseling field. The handbook illuminates the challenges, limitations, and various aspects of their issues and problems that have been affecting the adult survivor???s life, and offers insight into their experiences and the comfort of normalization of those experiences. The information, assignments, and guided visualizations take an integrated evidence-based therapeutic approach, drawing from different theories, and are to be used in conjunction with a comprehensive integrative treatment protocol that addresses the variety and extensive psychological, social, and spiritual effects experienced by adult survivors of CSA. The information, assignments, and guided visualizations can be used in individual and group therapy by both men and women survivors of CSA.
