Therapists' Self-Reported Training and Success Rates in Treating Clients with Childhood Sexual Abuse

1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Winkelspecht ◽  
Sangeeta Singg
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Self Reports

In this two-part study, three groups of therapists (16 psychologists, 11 counselors, and 14 social workers) were compared with regard to their success rates with clients presenting with childhood sexual abuse, and 43 graduate programs were asked whether they offered courses covering counseling techniques with such clients. Therapists' self-reported success rates were not significantly related to therapists' training, but type of therapy was. Given a response rate of 18.6%, self-reports should be treated cautiously. Over two-thirds of the training programs (45% response rate) offered courses covering issues in childhood sexual abuse and 67% offered courses covering counseling techniques with such clients. However, in 85% of these courses, treatment of childhood sexual abuse was a topic covered under more general course headings.

Inconsistent retrospective self-reports of childhood sexual abuse and their correlates in the general population

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willemien Langeland ◽  
Jan H. Smit ◽  
Harald Merckelbach ◽  
Gerard de Vries ◽  
Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
General Population ◽  
Self Reports

Self-reports of forgetting and remembering childhood sexual abuse in a nationally representative sample of US women

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon C Wilsnack ◽  
Stephen A Wonderlich ◽  
Arlinda F Kristjanson ◽  
Nancy D Vogeltanz-Holm ◽  
Richard W Wilsnack
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Nationally Representative

A Trio of Risk Factors for Childhood Sexual Abuse: Investigating Exposure to Parental Domestic Violence, Parental Addiction, and Parental Mental Illness as Correlates of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Social Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-277
Author(s):  
Esme Fuller-Thomson ◽  
Senyo Agbeyaka
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Exposure To Domestic Violence ◽  
Risk Factor Surveillance

Abstract Targeted screening for sexual abuse is needed for social workers to accurately identify those at risk. Drawing on a cumulative disadvantage framework, this study investigates how parental addictions, parental mental illness, and exposure to domestic violence, both individually and cumulatively, are associated with childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Two waves of regionally representative data were analyzed. Bivariate and logistic regression analyses were conducted using the 2010 Brief Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) (n = 9,241 men, n = 13,627 women) and replicated using the 2012 BRFSS (n = 11,656 men, n = 18,145 women). The 2010 data indicated that 8.5 percent of men who had endured all three childhood adversities reported that they had experienced CSA, compared with 0.6 percent of men who did not experience any of these adversities. Levels of CSA for women in 2010 were 28.7 percent for those experiencing all three risk indicators, and 2.1 percent for women with no risk indicators. Results were similar in the BRFSS 2012. Those with two or more risk factors had between five- and eightfold higher odds of CSA. Social workers may be able to decrease false positives if they screen for CSA based on the presence of two or more risk factors.

Wading through the Muddy Waters of Recovered Memory

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 478-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan P. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Recovered Memory ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Running Away ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Common Response

The author reviews the professional debate about recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse and addresses conceptual errors, unwarranted assumptions, and factual inaccuracies in Benatar's essay “Running Away from Sexual Abuse: Denial Revisited” in the May 1995 Families in Society. Despite the fact that many therapists believe that repression or dissociation is a common response to childhood sexual abuse, little support for this idea is found in scientific studies. The author reviews the recent literature in this area and cautions social workers to avoid getting caught in the extreme polemics of this debate. Although it is important to be open to new findings in this area, we must be able to distinguish between conjecture and fact.

A Proposal to Establish Standardized Learning Outcomes for Resonance Across Graduate Programs in Speech-Language Pathology

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Helen M. Sharp ◽  
Mary O'Gara
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Core Knowledge ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Graduate Training Programs

The Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CCFC) sets accreditation standards and these standards list broad domains of knowledge with specific coverage of “the appropriate etiologies, characteristics, anatomical/physiological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural correlates” and assessment, intervention, and methods of prevention for each domain” (CCFC, 2013, “Standard IV-C”). One domain in the 2014 standards is “voice and resonance.” Studies of graduate training programs suggest that fewer programs require coursework in cleft palate, the course in which resonance was traditionally taught. The purpose of this paper is to propose a standardized learning outcomes specific to resonance that would achieve the minimum knowledge required for all entry-level professionals in speech-language pathology. Graduate programs and faculty should retain flexibility and creativity in how these learning outcomes are achieved. Shared learning objectives across programs would serve programs, faculty, students, accreditation site visitors, and the public in assuring that a consistent, minimum core knowledge is achieved across graduate training programs. Proficiency in the management of individuals with resonance disorders would require additional knowledge and skills.

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