ERIC Number: EJ841169
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
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Efficacy of a Group Therapy for Sexually Abused Adolescent Girls
Tourigny, Marc; Hebert, Martine; Daigneault, Isabelle; Simoneau, Ann Claude
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, v14 n4 p71-93 2005
The effects of a group therapy program for teenage girls reporting child sexual abuse were evaluated by means of a pretest/post-test design with a control group. The psycho-educational intervention consisted of an average of 20 weekly two-hour meetings. Results of the repeated analyses of variance (ANOVA) revealed a significant improvement in youth participating in the therapy when compared with the control group on measures of post-traumatic stress, internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, coping strategies, relationship with the mother, and sense of empowerment. The findings suggest that the group therapy offered by the Centre d'Intervention en Abus Sexuels pour la Famille (CIASF) was effective in reducing symptoms for sexually abused teenagers. (Contains 6 tables and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Empowerment, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Females, Coping, Test Construction, Group Therapy, Counseling Effectiveness, Outcomes of Treatment, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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