How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects The Child Through...

Karajurt and Silver wrote the article, â€Å"Therapy for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors Using Attachment and Family Systems Theory Orientations,† to show how Childhood Sexual Abuse affects the child through adulthood. Childhood sexual abuse is better known as any sexual contact that an adult does by using threats, force, deception, touching, and anything that the child does not know is wrong due to age and mental stability. Karakurt and Silver (2014), says that: research indicates that with a broad definition of sexual abuse like â€Å"any sexual involvement,† prevalence rates are as high as 50%; a narrow definition of sexual abuse like, â€Å" forced genital activity,† yields prevalence rates of about 5% (Haugaard , 2000). Although children of both†¦show more content†¦These issues cause the need for a therapist to come in and to get to know the child that has been sexually abused so that they can talk the child through their problem. Therapists comes in to help the child get to where they can overcome all the things that they are having trouble with and support them so that they can be the person they want to be. Family System Theory focuses on the child’s family and their interactions among each other so that the therapist can come in and examine the family and figure out what is going wrong. Interactions are a huge problem that families face. Sexually abused children rely on family roles, having trust and being comfortable interacting with others. Some children feel more betrayal, powerless, and stigmatization from what had happened to them as a child. Feeling betrayed and powerless is something that a child should never have to feel. Children normally feels this way because of the person that is taking care of them lied, caused harm, misunderstood them, and abused them. Social support is one thing that can really help a child that has been sexually abused. Social support can help the child’s self-esteem so that they can protect themselves from being re-victimized. When one of the family members are unable to protect the child from another person in the family from hurting t hem sexually, the child suffers from betrayal. The child