Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse The problem selected for examinatio

Specifically, social workers will need to consider the possibility of childhood sexual abuse in their interactions with clients, and then determine and utilize interactional methods and resources related to remediating these effects. This paper examines four articles about the long term effects of childhood sexual abuse in an effort to learn more about the selected research problem.

Rew (1989) has pointed out that debilitated self-esteem underlies a great variety of psychological and social problems. People who take drugs, abuse alcohol, suffer eating disorders, and participate in antisocial conduct often evidence levels of self-esteem that are decidedly lower than those of people without these problems. Rew wondered if one of the contributors to low self-esteem was childhood sexual abuse.

In her investigation of this possibility, Rew (1989) assessed level of childhood sexual abuse, level of self-esteem, and level of depression in a sample of 55 baccalaureate nursing students

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with psychiatric patients reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse. The authors also state that the diagnosis of PTSD makes certain specific treatment issues salient for all childhood sexual abuse cases. These treatment issues include: the development of trust, abreaction and working through the trauma as well as the need for conjoint sessions with concerned others. Another article with implications for theory is a discussion of the general childhood abuse literature (both physical and sexual abuse) authored by Hallett (1988). According to Hallett, there are clear limitations associated with developing social policy for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of childhood abuse. She states despite both public concern and outcry and a now extensive body of professional research in the field, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the incidence of abuse as well as the characteristics of abusing families. Moreover, there are great disparities in definitions of what constitutes both physical and sexual abuse used by researchers and health and welfare agencies. These problems are said to make formulating both theory and policy difficult. In addition, the ways in which socioeconomic characteristics, personal and env
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