Helping early adolescents tell: a guided exercise for trauma-focused sexual abuse treatment groups

Child Welfare. 1994 Mar-Apr;73(2):141-54.

Abstract

This article discusses the telling of the personal stories of sexual abuse within the context of trauma-focused group therapy for early adolescent girls. It examines the general benefits of group therapy for early adolescents, and describes the trauma-focused structured group therapy model. It also includes a guided exercise that facilitates the telling of the stories by the girls, offers cues to the therapists about each girl's unique sexual abuse experience, and structures feedback from group members.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Adolescent
  • Child Abuse, Sexual / psychology
  • Child Abuse, Sexual / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mental Recall
  • Psychotherapy, Group*
  • Self Concept
  • Self Disclosure*