GROUP-THERAPY FOR WOMEN SEXUALLY ABUSED AS CHILDREN - A CONTROLLED-STUDY AND INVESTIGATION OF INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES

This article describes a project comparing the effectiveness of two short-term group therapy formats to a waitlist control condition for 65 adult women who were incestuously abused as children. In addition to treatment outcome, the authors discuss clinical impressions and supporting data on the specific benefits of each of the two formats, the individual factors predictive of outcome, and the implications of their findings for the development of the most appropriate format of group therapy for individual women. © 1991, SAGE PUBLICATIONS. All rights reserved.