@article{ref1,
title="Typologies of child sexual abuse: an analysis of multiple abuse acts among a large sample of Danish treatment-seeking survivors of childhood sexual abuse",
journal="Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy",
year="2018",
author="Shevlin, Mark and Murphy, Siobhan and Elklit, Ask and Murphy, Jamie and Hyland, Philip",
volume="10",
number="3",
pages="263-269",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The deleterious psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) have been extensively documented in the research literature. A limitation of this research, however, has been a reliance on overly restrictive and limiting measurements of CSA. Researchers have most commonly referred to discrete instances of rape and molestation; however, evidence suggests that sexual abuse in childhood can include a wide array of acts and that individual survivors can endure many of these. <br><br>METHOD: This study employed latent class analysis to identify homogeneous groups of adult CSA survivors characterized by similar typologies of sexual trauma within a large sample of Danish, treatment-seeking survivors of CSA and incest (N = 454). In total, 18 separate contact and noncontact abuse acts were modeled. Furthermore, the association between abuse-related variables (victim gender, the age at which the abuse started, duration of abuse, and perpetrator of abuse) and the resultant CSA groups, or classes, was estimated. <br><br>RESULTS: Four homogeneous CSA groups were identified: an intercourse group, a high-verbal/low-contact group, a high-sexual-contact group, and a sexual-touch group. Some of the groups were distinguishable from others in terms of the frequency of the abuse and the type of perpetrator identified. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The results show that &quot;typologies&quot; of CSA may provide a useful way to describe complex patterns of abuse while also facilitating future investigations of CSA outcome and treatment need. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1942-9681",
doi="10.1037/tra0000268",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000268"
}