title: Helping early adolescents tell: a guided exercise for trauma-focused sexual abuse treatment groups.
abstract: This article discusses the telling of the personal stories of sexual abuse within the context of trauma-focused group therapy for early adolescent girls. It examines the general benefits of group therapy for early adolescents, and describes the trauma-focused structured group therapy model. It also includes a guided exercise that facilitates the telling of the stories by the girls, offers cues to the therapists about each girl's unique sexual abuse experience, and structures feedback from group members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: deYoung
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Corbin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012649:Self Concept; D012650:Self Disclosure