성폭력 피해자의 심리치료 = Psychological Treatment for Sexually Abused Victims

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

According to recent statistics, about 75% of Korean women are suffering from some forms of sexual abuses in their life time, and Korea can be ranked in the second place in the world in terms of sexual assaults against women.
Sexually abused women tend to show the following symptoms such as negative emotions of depression, anxiety, and panic reactions, cognitive distortions, sexualized behaviors, and interpersonal difficulties.
Loss model that emphasizes the loss of childhood period, loss of virginity, and loss of self-esteem due to sexual assault seems to be more appropriate for the Korean sexual abused victims because Korean women tend to be very sensitive to the issues of virginity.
Psychological treatments for the sexually abused survivors should be provided considering the conditions of the female clients such as severity of symptoms and readiness for the treatment.
Abreaction of clinical symptoms should be done first before the cognitive interventions for the clients. Social skills training is always necessary for helping them cope with their environments.
Individual and group interventions were suggested for the sexually abused victims.