The long shadow of sexual abuse [electronic resource] : developmental effects across the life cycle / Calvin A. Colarusso.

The long shadow of sexual abuse [electronic resource] : developmental effects across the life cycle / Calvin A. Colarusso.

9780765707680 (electronic bk.)
9780765707666

Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, [2010]

©2010

English

1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages)

RJ506.C48 C646 2010eb

618.92/85836

The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle has one simple purpose--to describe the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur in every subsequent developmental phase throughout life as theresult of chronic child sexual abuse. Through the presentation of detailed case histories of individuals ranging in age from five to the early sixties, Colarusso convincingly demonstrates that the effects are life long. Sections on normal development forchildhood, adolescence, young, and middle adulthood are followed by case histories, arranged chronologically according to the age of the victims at the time they were evaluated. Then the effects of the sexual abuse are traced through subsequent developmental phases to the chronological present. Colarusso illuminates how the passage of time actually increases the pathological effects of chronic child sexual abuse due to interferences with the developmental tasks of adolescence and adulthood.

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