TY - JOUR PY - 1996// TI - The meaning of college for survivors of sexual abuse: higher education and the older female college student JO - American journal of orthopsychiatry A1 - LeBlanc, J. B. A1 - Brabant, S. A1 - Forsyth, C. J. SP - 468 EP - 473 VL - 66 IS - 3 N2 - A study of the general college experience of 44 female undergraduates, 30 years of age and older, revealed a high prevalence of childhood sexual abuse. The impact of this abuse on these women and the meaning of higher education in resolving the negative sequelae of their earlier traumatic experiences are examined, and implications for counseling are discussed.
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