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Author:

TAVKAR Poonam; HANSEN David J.;

Title:

Interventions for families victimized by child sexual abuse: clinical issues and approaches for child advocacy center-based services.

Reference:

Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16(3), May/June 2011, pp.188-199.

ISSN paper:

1359-1789

Abstract:

Child sexual abuse poses serious mental health risks to child victims and to non-offending family members. In the US, community-based Child Advocacy Centers, designed to be child friendly facilities, are increasingly being used as initial access sites for mental health services for sexual abuse victims. This article identifies and describes various types of mental health interventions for child victims and non-offending family members and provides recommendations for establishing these services at Child Advocacy Centers. It covers impacts on child victims and families, crisis interventions, time-limited individual interventions and group interventions for child victims, non-offending caregivers and non-abused siblings, and the need for long-term interventions and referrals. It presents the Project SAFE intervention offered at the Lincoln/Lancaster County Child Advocacy Center as a model for mental health services in Child Advocacy Centers. It describes 4 key elements of the programme (group treatment for sexually abused young people and their non-offending caregivers, group treatment for non-abused siblings, crisis intervention, and brief family intervention) and discusses its benefits and treatment gains.

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Format:

article;

Topics:

advocacy; child sexual abuse; crisis intervention; families; group therapy; intervention; mental health problems; young people;

Content Type:

practice; practice example;

Country/Region:

United States;

Record ID:

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