Cargando…

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is considered as an activity aimed at providing sexual pleasure, stimulation, or sexual gratification to an adult who uses a minor for this purpose, taking advantage of the situation of superiority. CSA can have devastating consequences for the child. Previous studies ha...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Castro, Ángel, Ibáñez, Javier, Maté, Berta, Esteban, Jessica, Barrada, Juan Ramón
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31543854
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02018
_version_ 1783449486164492288
author Castro, Ángel
Ibáñez, Javier
Maté, Berta
Esteban, Jessica
Barrada, Juan Ramón
author_facet Castro, Ángel
Ibáñez, Javier
Maté, Berta
Esteban, Jessica
Barrada, Juan Ramón
author_sort Castro, Ángel
collection PubMed
description Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is considered as an activity aimed at providing sexual pleasure, stimulation, or sexual gratification to an adult who uses a minor for this purpose, taking advantage of the situation of superiority. CSA can have devastating consequences for the child. Previous studies have concluded that those who suffer an episode of CSA perform more risky sexual behaviors and are more likely to experience further episodes of sexual victimization during adolescence and early youth. There are two theoretical contributions that, although they offer partial views, can help to understand the association between CSA, sexual behavior, and revictimization in adulthood: the traumagenic dynamics model and the information-motivation-behavioral skills model. This short review provides an overview of the problems and theoretical explanations that have been presented up to the present, underlining the importance of prevention and sex education as of childhood, as well as the need to continue investigating in order to develop specific theoretical models that help to understand and prevent CSA and its consequences.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6728807
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2019
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-67288072019-09-20 Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review Castro, Ángel Ibáñez, Javier Maté, Berta Esteban, Jessica Barrada, Juan Ramón Front Psychol Psychology Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is considered as an activity aimed at providing sexual pleasure, stimulation, or sexual gratification to an adult who uses a minor for this purpose, taking advantage of the situation of superiority. CSA can have devastating consequences for the child. Previous studies have concluded that those who suffer an episode of CSA perform more risky sexual behaviors and are more likely to experience further episodes of sexual victimization during adolescence and early youth. There are two theoretical contributions that, although they offer partial views, can help to understand the association between CSA, sexual behavior, and revictimization in adulthood: the traumagenic dynamics model and the information-motivation-behavioral skills model. This short review provides an overview of the problems and theoretical explanations that have been presented up to the present, underlining the importance of prevention and sex education as of childhood, as well as the need to continue investigating in order to develop specific theoretical models that help to understand and prevent CSA and its consequences. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6728807/ /pubmed/31543854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02018 Text en Copyright © 2019 Castro, Ibáñez, Maté, Esteban and Barrada. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Castro, Ángel
Ibáñez, Javier
Maté, Berta
Esteban, Jessica
Barrada, Juan Ramón
Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title_full Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title_fullStr Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title_full_unstemmed Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title_short Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and Youth: A Mini Review
title_sort childhood sexual abuse, sexual behavior, and revictimization in adolescence and youth: a mini review
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31543854
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02018
work_keys_str_mv AT castroangel childhoodsexualabusesexualbehaviorandrevictimizationinadolescenceandyouthaminireview
AT ibanezjavier childhoodsexualabusesexualbehaviorandrevictimizationinadolescenceandyouthaminireview
AT mateberta childhoodsexualabusesexualbehaviorandrevictimizationinadolescenceandyouthaminireview
AT estebanjessica childhoodsexualabusesexualbehaviorandrevictimizationinadolescenceandyouthaminireview
AT barradajuanramon childhoodsexualabusesexualbehaviorandrevictimizationinadolescenceandyouthaminireview