title: Therapists' self-reported training and success rates in treating clients with childhood sexual abuse.
abstract: In this two-part study, three groups of therapists (16 psychologists, 11 counselors, and 14 social workers) were compared with regard to their success rates with clients presenting with childhood sexual abuse, and 43 graduate programs were asked whether they offered courses covering counseling techniques with such clients. Therapists' self-reported success rates were not significantly related to therapists' training, but type of therapy was. Given a response rate of 18.6%, self-reports should be treated cautiously. Over two-thirds of the training programs (45% response rate) offered courses covering issues in childhood sexual abuse and 67% offered courses covering counseling techniques with such clients. However, in 85% of these courses, treatment of childhood sexual abuse was a topic covered under more general course headings.
authors.affiliation: Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas 76909, USA.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Winkelspecht
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singg
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000628:therapy*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards