Childhood Sexual Abuse Women’s Mental and Social Health Before and After Group Therapy

................................................................ 5 Svensk sammanfattning............................................. 6 List of Original Papers............................................... 8 Introduction............................................................ 9 Childhood sexual abuse............................................. 10 Definition........................................................................................ 10 History........................................................................................... 10 Prevalence....................................................................................... 11 Female general studies..................................................................11 Female psychiatric studies.............................................................. 11 Symptoms........................................................................................ 12 Symptoms of adult women............................................................ 12 The impact of different childhood sexual abuse variables........................ 13 The attachment of the child related to childhood sexual abuse...................... 14 Revealing childhood sexual abuse.......................................................... 15 Individual psychotherapy.................................................................... 15 Group therapy.................................................................................. 16 Childhood sexual abuse group treatment models...................................16 Evaluation of group therapy effects on psychological and psychiatric variables................................................................................. 16 Evaluation of group therapy effects on social variables........................... 17 Aim..................................................................... 18 Material and methods................................................ 19 Background..................................................................................... 19 Group therapy model......................................................................... 19 Subjects.......................................................................................... 20 Study group.............................................................................. 20 Reference groups....................................................................... 20 Comparison groups..................................................................... 21 Procedure....................................................................................... 22 Instruments..................................................................................... 23 Ethics............................................................................................. 25