Treatment of childhood sexual abuse: An updated review

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 599-607

  Cummings, Marissa ^a   Berkowitz, Steven J ^b   Scribano, Philip V ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Childhood sex abuse; CSA; Epigenetics; Family; Intervention; Pharmacotherapy; Post traumatic stress disorder; Preventative interventions; Psychiatry; Psychosocial interventions; PTSD; Resilience; Review; Sexual abuse; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONIDINE; GUANFACINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; PLACEBO; PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FAMILY STRESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD ADVOCACY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84870802245     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0316-5     Document Type: Review

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