ABSTRACT
Recent decades have brought widespread recognition of child sexual abuse, as well as the numerous problems and consequences associated with it (Briere, 1992; Browne & Finkelhor, 1986a; Damon & Card, 1992). Given the well-documented problems of sexual abuse, the lack of empirically validated treatments is surprising. Treatments have typically lacked a theoretical basis and evaluation has been minimal and poorly conducted (O’Donohue & Elliot, 1992).
