Practitioner survey : respondent profile, and practitioner survey : section B and section D

Taylor, Joanne E.

Practitioner survey : respondent profile, and practitioner survey : section B and section D Taylor, Joanne E.; Harvey, Shane T.; Mortimer, Ruth C.; Campbell, Judith; Woolley, Cheryl - Palmerston North, New Zealand Raranga Whatumanawa, Massey University 2006 - 86 p. - Technical Report 8 .

This report was originally available on the Raranga Whatumanawa website which is no longer available. A hard copy of this report was in the collection transferred from MSD in March 2011. Techncal report: 8

This is one of a series of reports produced by Raranga Whatumanawa (The weaving of the heart patterns), a research project undertaken by the Psychology Clinic at Massey University, in conjunction with the Psychology Centre in Hamilton, to investigate the mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes resulting from sexual abuse. The research was funded by the Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand (ACC) and contributes to the development of useable national practice guidelines. This report is in two parts. The first, Taylor & Harvey, Practitioner Survey, describes the demographic characteristics of the 166 participants who responded to a postal survey of 695 practitioners regarding their work with clients who had been sexually abused and/or assaulted. Most participants were counsellors or psychotherapists who had been working in the sexual abuse/assault area for an average of 15 years. The report describes the wide range of clients seen by respondents and the various therapeutic approaches taken to their treatment. The second part of the report, Mortimer, Campbell & Wooley, Practitioner Survey, Section B and Section D, presents the results of the survey itself. Practitioners were asked to provide information about the effects of sexual abuse and to identify the therapeutic modalities they used in treating sequelae of sexual abuse. Section C contained optional case scenarios dealing with both child and adult sexual abuse. Responses provided information about practitioner approaches to case conceptualisation and this has been incorporated directly into Practice Guidelines. Section D relates the results of an optional feedback section in which practitioners express a range of views relating to ACC sensitive claims procedures. Among the wide range of therapeutic models used by practitioners the Therapeutic Relationship emerged as a primary key component. Cultural practice and barriers to effective therapy and recovery are also discussed.

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CHILD NEGLECT
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
DEMOGRAPHICS
INTERVENTION
MENTAL HEALTH
STATISTICS
TREATMENT
PREVENTION
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE



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