The similarities of these symptoms eventually became the primary diagnosis for sexually abused survivors. The American Psychiatric Association (1987) criteria for diagnosing PTSD includes the exposure of an individual to a traumatic event such as (sexual abuse) in which the experience or event involves actual or threatened death, and the individual’s response to the experience invokes intense fear, helplessness, horror, or in children disorientation or agitated behaviour as well as disturbance in sleep. Hornor (2010) contends that the symptoms of PTSD also involve persistence in the frequency of the traumatic events as well as the intense psychological response to the trauma. Some victims of sexual abuse tend to be extremely nervous, anxious,
