title: The treatment of abused children: the natural sequence of events.
abstract: Abused and neglected children and parents who were maltreated as children tend to follow a sequence of seven phases of progression in their treatment: realization, protest, dealing with guilt, working through despair, reevaluating relationships, reconciliation, and the reconstruction of their lives.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy