Introduction to the Special IssueThe Use of Creative Art Therapies in the Prevention, Screening, and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse

The significant gap between the prevalence of child sexual abuse and disclosure underscores the need for new, innovative, and creative screening tools to identify victims to end the abuse and provide these victims with appropriate treatment. This article presents the cumulative efforts of a series o...

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Published in:Journal of child sexual abuse 2022, Vol.31 (1), p.3-8
Main Authors: Lev-Wiesel, Rachel, Goldner, Limor, Daphna-Tekoah, Shir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art therapy
Arts
Censorship
Child Abuse
Child sexual abuse
Children
creative arts therapies
Dissociation
Medical screening
Offenders
Pedophilia
Prevention
screening
Sex crimes
Sexual Abuse
Tests
treating
Victims
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Summary:The significant gap between the prevalence of child sexual abuse and disclosure underscores the need for new, innovative, and creative screening tools to identify victims to end the abuse and provide these victims with appropriate treatment. This article presents the cumulative efforts of a series of innovative studies dealing with sexually abused survivors and offenders that concentrates on preventing, assessing, screening, and treating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). We start by describing the need and rationale for using the arts for purposes of identification and treatment. We discuss how these arts help bypass censorship and dissociation mechanisms involving the body as a critical factor during the assessment and the treatment. Each of the articles is then presented. The introduction is organized to show how non-verbal techniques for the prevention, screening, assessment and treatment of sexual abuse in chidren can move beyond verbal techniques that are known to be limited in their effectiveness.
ISSN:1053-8712
1547-0679
DOI:10.1080/10538712.2022.2032895