. James (1989) suggests that the most important thing to consider in the treatment of sexually abused children is that healing is unlikely to occur until the child has worked through the trauma. The repressed experience may likely present problems later in life, a term referred to as returning to the pain. James (1989) considers evaluating the impact of trauma during assessment and development of treatment plans using the traumagenic dynamic model as proposed by (Finkelhor & Browne, 1985). Consequently, the child’s experiences and presenting problems are compared against the four characteristics of each of the traumagenic model including sexual sexualisation, stigmatization, betrayal, and powerlessness.
• Sexualisation refers to the process
• Sexualisation refers to the process