ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how aspects of the current mental health system may potentially reflect, replicate, reinforce and repeat different components of the traumatic experience of child sexual abuse (CSA) for adult survivors. Understanding why and how this might occur at both an individual and a systemic level is essential for all mental health staff to prevent or at least reduce, re-traumatisation of survivors and vicarious traumatisation of staff. It is also the necessary beginnings for truly trauma-informed care in the context of compassionate and relationally driven mental health systems.
