Childhood sexual abuse and couples' relationships: Female survivors' reports in therapy groups - Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

This article - Childhood sexual abuse and couples' relationships: Female survivors' reports in therapy groups - is a review of five therapy groups for female survivors of sexual abuse. It's goal is to identify the most frequent themes that arise in terms of relationship difficulties. It found that survivors who are in therapy experience a great deal of turmoil and dissatisfaction in their relationships. The two most frequent relationship issues were difficulties with emotional communication or intimacy, and polarized positions on control; those issues correlate to survivors' primary coping strategies of avoiding threatening or dangerous feelings and the management of feelings of helplessness, powerlessness, and lack of control.

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