title: [Relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder, child sexual abuse and sexual re-victimization].
abstract: There is a relationship between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology. We report a 35 year-old woman derived to the Psychiatric Service of the Curicó Hospital due to anxiety and depressive symptoms lasting eight years, to illustrate the above mentioned relationship. At the psychiatric unit, a post traumatic stress disorder of belated onset, triggered by sexual abuse during childhood, re-edited after her daughter's birth, was diagnosed. This case illustrates different factors, which, in retrospective studies, have been associated with the morbid consequences of child sexual abuse, and allows an understanding of how different sexually traumatic events, during a person's lifetime, contribute to the development of a psychopathology. The problem was confronted by the mental health team at different levels and symptoms subsided in few interventions. An active search of the traumatic sexual background, allowed this achievement. The importance of studying and validating clinical situations as the present case, with methodologies based on evidence, is stressed.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Salud Mental, Hospital de Curicó. vvitriol@hospitalcurico.cl
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vitriol
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gomberoff
authors.forename: María Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Basualto
authors.forename: Soledad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ballesteros
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*