Forty-one of 278 university women who reported sexual contact with a significantly older person before age 15 reported higher levels of dissociation, somatization, anxiety, and depression than did nonabused women. Symptomatology was positively associated with such variables as age of abuser, use of force during victimization, and parental incest.…

Outcome of abuse-focused treatment was examined with 105 children (ages 8 through 15) who had been sexually abused, 71 of whom completed at least 3 months of treatment. Measures of depression and trauma symptoms showed continuing declines in some areas (such as anxiety, posttraumatic stress, dissociation, and sexual concerns) over a 1-year…