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Often excused by parents as `kids will be kids' behaviour, sibling abuse remains largely unrecognized. Symptoms of such abuse and its devastating effects on victims go undetected, victims do not receive appropriate therapeutic intervention, and transgressors do not come to the attention of the courts. The author of this book brings this neglected area `out of the shadows' with personal accounts of adult survivors, insights into why sibling abuse occurs, suggestions for prevention and implications for treatment.
Treatment of Sibling Abuse Survivors
Treatment of Sibling Abuse Survivors
I have finally sought help for the emotional problems stemming from my sexual abuse as a child by an older brother. Therapy is helping to bring some sense into my life.
Although the treatment of sibling physical, emotional, and sexual abuse survivors in essence does not differ from the treatment of survivors of adult-child physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, several factors relative to mental health professionals working with sibling abuse survivors will be discussed in this chapter.
Uncovering Sibling Abuse
Numerous sibling abuse survivors who read the author's first book on the subject have written expressing appreciation that the author's research has brought the problem of sibling abuse out into the open. Two words that many ...
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