ABSTRACT
Sexual violence affects a great many children around the world. For example, the World Health Organization WHO (2006b) estimates that, in 2002, 150 million girls (and 73 million boys) under 18 years of age experienced forced sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual assault. If we are to help such children, and the adults they become, we must develop a range of strategies and interventions. In the previous chapter I addressed the therapeutic needs of abuse survivors and introduced Visible Therapy as a framework for enabling a culturally aware, recovery-orientated approach to abuse psychotherapy. In this chapter, I focus on abused children's legal needs and use the Visible Therapy approach to demonstrate the bene®ts of utilizing feminism and post-structuralism to guide the work of expert witnesses in legal proceedings that relate to sexually abused children and young people.
