Techniques and Issues in Abuse-Focused Therapy with Children & Adolescents: Addressing the Internal Trauma - Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series

How can therapists deal effectively with children or adolescents who have been sexually abused - but refuse to discuss their experiences? Working with such young people presents innumerable challenges for the therapist. In this book, Sandra Wieland describes `The Internalization Model', which provides a framework which helps therapists understand the effects of sexual abuse on children's or adolescents' internal sense of self and world, even when the child does not talk about the abuse.