Based on over 25 years of research, Child Sexual Abuse, Second Edition describes a premier, empirically supported treatment approach for children, adolescents, and non-offending parents/caregivers impacted by child sexual abuse. Developed to provide support and to alleviate symptoms and problem behaviors in children and adolescents, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for child sexual abuse incorporates treatment components that provide children and their caregivers with education and coping skills training, while simultaneously addressing the trauma. This book describes the nuts and bolts of treatment including trauma narrative development and processing activities that help to alleviate children’s distress and feelings of shame associated with the abuse. Parents are also taught effective behavior management skills, and treatment often culminates with a focus on parent-child communication and enhancing safety and future development. This highly effective treatment model can be delivered in outpatient, school-based, residential, home, and/or group settings.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Theory, Treatment Development and Research
Chapter 3: Clinical Overview
Chapter 4: Setting the Stage for Treatment: Triage and Assessment
Chapter 5: About This Treatment Guide
Chapter 6: Psychoeducation and Parenting: Initiating the Stabilization and Skill Building Phase of Treatment
Chapter 7: Relaxation Skills and Parenting
Chapter 8: Affective Expression and Modulation Skills and Parenting
Chapter 9: Cognitive Coping Skills and Parenting
Chapter 10: Trauma Narrative Development Part I: Initiating the Trauma Narration and Processing Phase of Treatment
Chapter 11: Trauma Narrative and Processing Part II
Chapter 12: In Vivo Mastery Component and Parenting: Initiating the Consolidation and Closure Phase
Chapter 13: Conjoint Trauma-focused Sessions and Parenting
Chapter 14: Enhancing Safety and Future Development and Parenting
Chapter 15: Ending Therapy
Chapter 16: Addressing Sexual Difficulties and the Impact of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Chapter 17: Conclusions
Appendix A: Information on How to Obtain Recommended Assessment Measures
Appendix B: Informational and Parenting Handouts
Appendix C: Therapy Resources
Appendix D: Glossary of Terms
Appendix E: Professional Resources
Appendix F: Therapist Forms
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