Counseling Abused Children

Abstract

Historically child sexual abuse (CSA) has been a problem that has been hidden, which has had little recognition in society and therefore less attention. Currently statistics show that the incidence of abuse cases has increased and we dare to say that not making appropriate interventions, favoring the conditions for the phenomenon does not cease. Preventing child sexual abuse is a complex task, which relates not only to professionals but to be developed involving different community social agents. In the education of children, there are a myriad of things that are taken for granted, as if common sense was a guarantor of their knowledge. But this assumption is not true. Parents often ignore the way they have to face in the care of their children and their needs. Thus, this breeding is usually converted into a mutual learning based on trial and error.

Counseling Abused Children

Introduction

The term counseling means the relationship between a counselor and a person who has a problem and seeks help. The counselor will can gain a better understanding the child and their problems, so that the counselor can make better choices with respect to children's life. We ask all advice, sometimes comfort, to our parents and our friends, but if the problem is more complex, it may be that we had to resort to special assistance, that an advisor. The children should not perceive this action as a weakness, but rather as a clever way to solve a problem. Number of reasons cause people to see a counselor. They are, for example, distressed by the loss of a loved one or try to accept the failure of a union. In both cases arises the need for a consultant with extensive knowledge in the field. Since this booklet aims to help children recover from the suites of sexual violence experienced by themselves or by family member, we will deal specifically counseling on sexual violence (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008). This paper is about the counseling of children who have been abused. The main purpose of the research study was to find out how sexually or physically abused children are counseled.

Sexual violence is an abuse of power. It involves sexual activity imposed on a child an adult or older and stronger children. Assaults sex cause a slowdown in the sexual development normal children and force them to deal with thoughts, experiences and feelings difficult to understand their young age and with whom they can feel overwhelmed emotionally, psychologically and physically. Because children are powerless to stop the violence and too young to deal with what happens to them, they sometimes suffer from deep emotional problems, even though there is no apparent injury. Sexual violence is not only caused by a complete sexual intercourse or by sexual touching. See sexually explicit acts between adults watching films, pornography or assistant to sexual activity may be harmful. The attacker because even more emotional damage to children by asking them to secrecy about sexual assault. Because of this shared secret, child 'is isolated, ...