Psychological assessment through performance-based techniques and self-reports: a case study of a sexually abused girl at preschool age.
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Roscommon Mental Health Services, County Hospital Roscommon, Ireland. khalily64@yahoo.comIssue Date
2011-05MeSH
Borderline Personality DisorderChild
Child Abuse, Sexual
Child Behavior
Defense Mechanisms
Depressive Disorder
Female
Humans
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Psychological assessment through performance-based techniques and self-reports: a case study of a sexually abused girl at preschool age. 2011, 20 (3):338-52 J Child Sex AbusJournal
Journal of child sexual abuseDOI
10.1080/10538712.2011.571232PubMed ID
21660818Abstract
We investigated the implicit psychological and behavioral consequences of sexual abuse in an adolescent girl who suffered child sexual abuse at preschool age in this case report. We report the manifestations of this abuse on her personality and psychological functioning using a structured clinical interview and a comprehensive psychological battery including the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Standard Progressive Matrices, Rorschach Ink Blots, and the Schema Mode Inventory. These investigations were useful in formulating both a diagnosis and a management plan. The girl fulfilled diagnostic criteria for a major depressive episode and borderline personality disorder. This combination of psychological testing may be useful in establishing an accurate multiaxial diagnosis and for understanding the behavioral and psychological sequelae of child sexual abuse in similar cases. The study further suggests that schema-focused therapy is a useful therapeutic tool for individuals who have suffered child sexual abuse at an early age and who have borderline personality disorder.Item Type
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1547-0679ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/10538712.2011.571232
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