Child Sexual Abuse Sexual abuse to a child at times is confusing to the family. Families who are affected by sexual abuse to a child tend to have a difficult time talking about the abuse. About one out of every four girls and one out of every five boys are sexually abused by the time they are 18 years old. Sexual abuse to children happens across every socioeconomic status, ethnic, cultural, religion and education. Getting treatment for a victim of child sexual abuse is a difficult process because of the lack of trust by the child. When child sexual abuse occurs the victim’s family has a difficult time talking about the abuse, which leads to the family pretending the abuse never happened. Once the family ignores the abuse, this tends to leave the child to face their worst fears by themselves. When sexual abuse to a child occurs, the abuser is usually someone the child knows like a relative, friend, babysitter and etc. The offender is a person that the child knows and trusts. In my opinion, sexual abuse is very traumatic to the family, especially the child. Sexual abuse can divide the family, especially if the family is taking sides over whether or not the abuse occurred. One way to help families overcome this traumatic event is to provide treatment to the victim and their family. Therapy for families who have experienced sexual abuse can be helpful. By helping the family heal from the event and helping them rebuild their lives by teaching them different coping strategies, families can learn to support each other and the victim. Treatment for child sexual abuse can be difficult, but some of the articles I read state that individual and group therapy is effective. Individual therapy has sh... ... middle of paper ... ...., & Fleming, J. (2006). Long-term effects of child sexual abuse. [National Child Protection Clearinghouse.] Retrieved from http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/issues9.html National Associations to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children (NAPSAC) and Twin City Public Television (Co-producers). (2008). Saving Children: The sex abuse tragedy [DVD] (Available from the National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children at http://www.napsac.us Swan, N. (1998). Exploring the role of child abuse on later drug abuse. Research face broad gaps in information. NIDA notes, national institute on drug abuse. Retrieved from http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_noles/nnov/13n2/exploring.html. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010). The child abuse prevention and treatment act. Retrieved from http://ww.acf.hns.gov/programs/cb/laws/policies/cblaws/capta03/capital/manual.pdf
Obviously, working with survivors of child sexual abuse, neglect, and trauma: The approach taken by the social worker in the Brandon’s case shall begin with “assessment and beginning treatment of the family because child abuse is one of a wide range practice situation in which systems concepts can be applied to help to understand the dynamics involved” in the road for healing and recovery from the physical and psychological effect of the trauma by providing adequate resources available for counseling and therapy due to the devastating impacts of child sexual abuse can be heartbreaking for the victim and the family. However, social worker approach to understanding and responds efficiently by being empathetic to the complex situation as a result; the perpetrator is the father such as in the case of Brandon (Plummer, Makris, & Brocksen, 2014).
6% to 63% of women were sexually abused as children. A 1985 L.A. Times national
The effects of childhood sexual abuse carry on with the children forever. To what extent and to what effect does abuse have on children during adulthood? What are the main issues that adults have been abused suffer from in adulthood? Do they have more of a physical issue with preforming with their partner in the bedroom or do they have more of a mental block due to their trauma? The world had been asking these questions for far too long and we need answers on how helping the children of our world. The questions that have been stated have been answered through the two articles that will be summarized below.
The Office of Child Abuse Prevention. (2011). Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA). California Department of Social Services.
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Child abuse in general is quite complex and at the same time one of the most challenging social issue facing people all around the USA. Child abuse cases have been recorded in all the states of the USA. The cases occur in all areas be it cities, small towns, suburbs, and even in rural areas. The vice also happens in all types of families regardless of the ethnic origin of the family or the even family income (UNICEF, 2015). It is thus important that effort is put into reducing cases of child abuse.
According to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, an estimated 777,200 children were determined to be victims of abuse or neglect by a protective service agency in the United States in 2008, and 9.1% of these children were determined to have been sexually abused (Draucker, 2011). Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a prevalent problem in the United States that is associated with many long term psychological, behavioral, social and physical effects on men and women (Draucker, 2011). These effects can make a person’s life a living hell. They turn someone into a person that they may not have been if the tragic event didn’t happen to them.
Childhood sexual abuse, as defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1996), includes using persuasion, enticement, and other inducements to coerce a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct or simulation of sexual acts. Survivors of sexual abuse frequently have a legacy of both psychological and physical problem throughout life. There has been considerable literature published in the past 20 years focusing on the long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse.
Many individuals believe the sexual abuse is difficult to solve, sexual abuse can be prevented, Federal agencies have done little to solve the situation, and the interpretation of an event involving sexual abuse is often misguided. Many people in today’s society
These numbers demand the public’s attention. The pain of just one child should be more than enough to cause a person to jump up and help, much less the pain of more than six thousand children. The U.S. Department of Justice calls children the “perfect victim” for six major reasons. Firstly, since children are typically not emotionally or physically mature, they will try to avoid talking about the abuse. The second reason that they provide is that often times the child does not want to betray the person who is abusing them due to the fact that, many times, the abuser is someone close to them or even related to them. Thirdly, many times there is not enough medical evidence or reliable eye witness accounts for the police to persecute a sexual predator. Unfortunately, the child’s testimony is easy for most any defense attorney to strike down. Two more reas...
This paper outlines the consequences of child sexual abuse (CSA) based on the examination of results from multiple researches previously fulfilled concerning the psychological and physical impact of this crime, information of statistics, warning signs detected, victims’ performances, and emotional state. Sexual abuse causes severe trauma on child victims that will last for the course of their lives, therefore it is critical to identify and improve the therapeutic methods utilized to treat CSA survivors.
Therapy can help victims heal from the trauma and go on to lead healthy lives. When choosing a therapist, it is important to ensure that they are adequately trained, licensed in their state, and certified in evidence-based trauma treatment methods. - Group therapy: Molestation is isolating, and victims often feel tremendous shame and loneliness. As such, group therapy can be a significant tool of healing for victims. It is very helpful for adolescents and adult survivors of sexual abuse to both give and get support from other people who have been through similar experiences.
Child abuse, while having many different forms and levels of severity, can be basically defined as the maltreatment of a child by a parent or other adult. When one thinks of child abuse, usually the first thing that comes to mind is physical harm, but the issue is actually much more complex. The abuse of a child can also be manifested in verbal and emotional forms, as well as in sexual molestation. All forms of child abuse generally result in similar emotional disorders and behavioral issues, but the major consequences of sexual abuse, such as mental or emotional scarring, promiscuity, and the tendency of former victims to become sexual abusers, cause it to be the most severely damaging form of child abuse.
Children or adolescents who have been sexually abused should consult a counsellor and join psychoanalytic group psychotherapy to help with their emotional growth or identify and overcome their fear with instilling hope and restoring their self-esteem. The definition of sexual abuse is someone getting raped, sexual assault , it is an unwanted sexual activity that is forced by someone that takes advantage of it without the given consent of the victim even though the victim knows the culprit most of the time. One out of three children are sexually abused and did not tell anyone about it at the point of time (Radford, Corral, Bradley, Fisher, Bassett, Howat, & Collishaw, 2011). Psychoanalytic therapy involves a therapist listening to an individual
More importantly, “60 percent of children who are sexually abused do not disclose and most are acquaintances but as many as 47 percent are family or extended family” (The Scope of, 2016). The prevalence of child sexual abuse is difficult to determine because it is often not reported; experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities (Child Sexual Abuse, 2012). Startling statistics represent the depth of the issue. Globally, prevalence rates show that a range of 7-36% of women and 3-29% of men experience sexual abuse in childhood (The Scope of, 2016). “The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report child maltreatment 2010 found that 9.2% of victimized children were sexually assaulted” (Child Sexual Abuse,