Such experiences are often framed as child sexual abuse (CSA) within a discourse of child maltreatment. Sexual activity between adults and young children is indeed abuse, and fully merits the moral stance taken by therapists, health professionals and society.
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| About the author | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Childhood sexual experiences | |
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| Damaged goods? What we already know about childhood sexual experiences | |
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| Normal sexual development | |
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| A silence recently broken | |
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| The need to remember and the need to forget | |
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| Protecting and helping others | |
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| Justice at any cost | |
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| Remaining defiant | |
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| Kids and adults that don't tell | |
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| Drawing together the threads of resilience | |
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| Gender differences in the development of narratives of resilience and disclosure | |
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| How to heal relational injuries caused by childhood sexual experiences | |
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| Ten-week, step-by-step recovery programs | |
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| Research methodology | |
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| Limitations of the research methodology | |
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| Suggested reading and websites | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |