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THE “ALIENATED” PARTNER: RESPONSES TO TRADITIONAL THERAPIES FOR ADULT SEX ABUSE SURVIVORS
Author(s) -
Reid Kary S.,
Wampler Richard S.,
Taylor Dana K.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1996.tb00219.x
Subject(s) - modalities , sexual abuse , psychology , clinical psychology , group psychotherapy , adjunct , psychotherapist , qualitative research , family therapy , treatment modality , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , social science , linguistics , philosophy , surgery , sociology
Childhood sexual abuse affects both survivors and partners; however, the common therapy modalities for survivors (individual and individual group therapy exclude their partners. In‐depth interviews with the husbands of survivors were used to examine partner issues around the survivor's therapy. Several thems, both positive and negative, emerged from the qualitative analysis of the in‐depth interviews. The authors suggest that therapists should consider integration conjoint couple therapy as an adjunct to, not a replacement for the traditional modalities of individual and individual group therapy for adult survivors.