Sex Abuse

Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
by Paul E. Mullen and Jillian Fleming
www.aifs.gov



Child internal subvert is widely regarded as a cause of mental health problems in full moon-grown life. This article examines the adjoin of child sexual abuse on societal, sexual and interpersonal functioning, and its potential role in mediating the much than widely recognized impacts on mental health. In discussing the kinship between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology, the authors estimate a number of models, including the post-traumatic stress disorder model, the traumatogenic model, and developmental and affectionate models. They look at family risk factors which predispose children from specific macrocosm groups to be at greater risk of abuse, and conclude that the positive damage caused by child sexual abuse impacts on the childs developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality.

In little over a decade, child sexual abuse has fill in to be widely regarded as a cause of mental health problems in adult life. The influences of child sexual abuse on interpersonal, social and sexual functioning in adult life and its feasible role in mediating some, if not all, of the deleterious effects on mental health, has attracted less attention and research, but is arguably as important.



For this reason, and because the mental health aspects have been so much more widely canvassed and ably reviewed (Tomison 1996), this review will emphasise the impact of child sexual abuse on social and interpersonal functioning, and its potential role in mediating the more widely recognised impacts on mental health.

Early research

The manner in which the long effects of child sexual abuse have come to be conceptualised reflects, in no small measure, the very fussy circumstances that surrounded the revelation of child sexual abuse as an all too common event in the lives of our children. The first phase of modern research into child sexual abuse was not triggered...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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