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- Title
Beyond Attachment: Psychotherapy with a Sexually Abused Teenager.
- Authors
ADAMS, CHRISTINE B. L.
- Abstract
When children are abused they utilize strategies already in place to cope with stress. These strategies develop during early life within the family and may be part of the unconscious framework formed within attachments and relationships. The case presented illustrates a teen-aged girl who was the victim of sexual abuse and experienced depression, PTSD and substance abuse. This paper describes the psychodynamic psychotherapy used to examine the patient's coping skills, which predated the abuse, and how these coping mechanisms were used to ameliorate her symptoms.
- Subjects
SEXUALLY abused teenagers; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT of post-traumatic stress disorder; MENTAL depression; THERAPEUTICS; PSYCHODYNAMIC psychotherapy; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
American Journal of Psychotherapy (Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), 2012, Vol 66, Issue 4, p313
- ISSN
0002-9564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2012.66.4.313