title: Effects of posttraumatic stress disorder and child sexual abuse on self-efficacy development.
abstract: The symptoms of child sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affect a child's self-efficacy. A child's self-efficacy beliefs impact the course and treatment of PTSD, because perceived self-efficacy plays a mediating role in children's ability to cope with trauma. Self-efficacy research indicates that emotional competence can be learned and may provide treatment for PTSD that provides symptom reduction as well as a means of substituting problem-solving coping skills for emotion-focused coping skills.
authors.affiliation: Assessment and Treatment Alternatives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Amy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Diehl
authors.forename: Maurice F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Prout
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000339:Affect; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011340:Problem Solving; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*