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Applied Research The Psychological Consequences of Sexual Trauma Nicole P. Yuan, Mary P. Koss, and Mirto Stone T. he Psychological Consequences of Sexual Trauma among Women's responses to survivors have been widely studied, but research in- childhood and adulthood Sexual vestigations continue, in part, because rates of violence violence are complex and against girls and women remain high. The National Violence highly individualized. Some Against Women Survey found that 18% of women reported ex- survivors experience severe periencing a completed or attempted rape during their lifetime and chronic Psychological (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). More than half (54%) of the rape symptoms, whereas others survivors that responded to the survey were younger than age experience little or no distress.

that childhood sexual abuse was associated with an increased risk of a serious suicide even after accounting for the effects of previous psychological problems and a twin’s history of suicidal behaviors (Stratham et al., 1998). Survivors of childhood sexual abuse have also been shown to be at greater risk of problem alcohol use

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