Citation

Palesh O, Classen CC, Field N, Kraemer HC, Spiegel D. J. Child Sex. Abus. 2007; 16(4): 63-80.

Affiliation

James P Wilmot Cancer Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 704.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J070v16n04_04

PMID

18032246

Abstract

This study examined the impact of telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse and its relationship with the survivor's self-capacities and history of other child maltreatment. The baseline data were collected from 134 female CSA survivors who were participating in a large intervention study. Participants were given 10 minutes to describe their childhood sexual abuse and completed a post-interview questionnaire assessing post-traumatic stress symptoms and their emotional response. The distress in response to their narrative was both predicted and mediated by the survivors' self-capacities and other forms of child maltreatment beyond child sexual abuse.

Language: en