effects of childhood sexual abuse are severe and persistent and are found in multiple areas of functioning (Johnson, 2004). Johnson reported that the consequences of this abuse are related to the child's age, development, the acts performed, threats and bribes, fear of retribution and culpability, chronicity of the acts, relationship to the perpetrator, a child's resistance, and treatment. Child consequences include: anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, academic problems, dissociation, distress and emotional problems, HIV, homeless and runaway, helplessness, hostility, obsessive compulsive behavior, paranoid ideation, pregnancy, psychotic behavior, sexualized behavior, somatic problems, substance abuse, neuroendocrine dysfunction, suicide or attempts, and PTSD.
Adult consequences include: anxiety, attachment disorder, binge eating, bipolar disorder, adjustment problems, sexual abuse of their own or other children, coerced intercourse, conversion disorder, depression, dissociation,
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