Citation

Freshwater K, Ainscough C, Toon K. J. Child Sex. Abus. 2002; 11(4): 35-52.

Affiliation

The Psychological Health Service, Tees & North East Yorkshire NHS Trust, c/o Stewart House, 53 church Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7DX, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16221652

Abstract

Confrontation of an abuser is often regarded as a powerful process in clinical work with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This paper explores direct and symbolic forms of survivors confronting their abusers via a review of the current literature and the self-report of 12 female survivors, post-therapy. Six of the survivors had chosen to directly confront their abusers and six had not. Their experiences and opinions are presented together with a discussion of important issues within this area and the need for further research.

Language: en