Child Sexual Abuse: The Search for Healing

289 Pages·1990·1.4 MB·English

by  Christopher Bagley

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
The search for healing
CHRISTOPHER BAGLEY
and
KATHLEEN KING
TAVISTOCK/ROUTLEDGE
London and New York
First published in 1990
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by
Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1990 Christopher Bagley and Kathleen King
Laserprinted directly from the publisher’s w-p disks by
NWL Editorial Services, Langport, Somerset
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission
in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bagley, Christopher
Child sexual abuse: the search for healing.
1. Children. Sexual abuse by adults I. Title II. King, Kathleen
362.7′044
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bagley, Christopher
Child sexual abuse: the search for healing/
by Christopher Bagley and Kathleen King
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
1. Child molesting—Canada 2. Sexually abused
children—Services for—Canada 3. Child molesting—United
States 4. Sexually abused children—Services for—United States.
I. King, Kathleen.
II. Title.
HQ72.C3B34 1989 88–36431
362.7′044–dc19 CIP
ISBN 0-203-39259-0 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-39535-2 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-00605-8 (hbk.)
ISBN 0-415-00606-6 (pbk.)
CONTENTS
List of Tables v ii
About the Authors i x
1 THE MEANING OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN
CHILDHOOD 1
2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 5
3 DEFINITIONS AND ETHICS 3 8
4 STATISTICAL DIMENSIONS 5 6
5 A COMMUNITY MODEL 7 8
6 TRAUMA TO THE CHILD VICTIM 10 5
7 HEALING OF THE CHILD SURVIVOR 13 3
8 HEALING THE FAMILY 15 7
9 HEALING OF OFFENDERS 18 2
10 HEALING OF SOCIETY 20 4
11 IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH 23 1
vi CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
Bibliography 24 2
Name Index 26 4
Subject Index 26 9
TABLES
4.1 Comparison of prevalence across eleven studies 7 6
4.2 Comparison of offender-victim relationships for women
across five studies 77
6.1 Patterns of sequence of parental separation, parental
punitiveness and sexual abuse in childhood in twenty
subjects 128
6.2 Depression (in 1986–7) by combinations of childhood
abuse and loss; stress (in 1986–7) and social support (in
1983) within 98 subjects reporting childhood sexual abuse129
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Christopher Bagley studied in England and received a D.Phil. in
social psychology from the University of Sussex before
emigrating to Canada to take up the Senator Patrick Burns Chair
of Child Welfare at the University of Calgary. He was part of a
group which established an agency for counselling sexually
abused children and their families in Calgary, using methods
based on the humanistic model of therapy pioneered by Hank
Giarretto. He also works with Native Bands in northern Alberta
in programmes designed to prevent the removal of Native
children from their families and to assist the return of Native
children from the care of social services to their original families.
Kathleen King studied philosophy before undertaking social
work training. She has extensive practice experience in
Edmonton, Alberta, in the treatment and prevention of child
sexual abuse, and has an M.S.W. degree from the University of
Calgary. She now practises social work in rural Nova Scotia.
This book was completed while Chris Bagley held a visiting
fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Leeds, in 1987.