Citation

Nurcombe B, Wooding S, Marrington P, Bickman L, Roberts G. Aust. N. Zeal. J. Psychiatry 2000; 34(1): 92-97.

Affiliation

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Mental Health Centre, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Australia. bnurcombe@psychiatry.uq.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11185951

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the scientific literature concerning the treatment of child sexual abuse. METHOD: A critical review of the scientific literature. RESULTS: There are only nine published research studies in which subjects were randomly assigned to an index treatment or treatments and a comparison treatment or no-treatment control group. In seven of the studies, the index treatment exceeded the control or comparison group in regard to treatment outcome; in two studies it did not. The successful treatments involved group therapy, combined individual and group play therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment should be based on an explicit conceptual model of the psychopathology of sexual abuse. The University of Queensland Sexual Abuse Treatment Project, which is based on a transactional model, is described.

Language: en