Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by BEUTLER, L. E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by BEUTLER, L. E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Designing Outcome Studies

Treatment of Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

LARRY E. BEUTLER

University of California—Santa Barbara

Methodological issues are addressed for those who design studies that evaluate treatment efficacy among victims of early sexual abuse. Recommendations are provided for ensuring (a) representative samples, (b) stable and valid measures, (c) statistical power and low error rates, (d) treatment integrity, (e) little contamination from therapist effects, (f) protection from unintended experimenter influences, and (g) clinically meaningful findings. It is concluded that at least two lines of integrated inquiry are needed: (a) studies that seek to determine the degree to which responses to early sexual victimization are different from those associated with other early traumas, and (b) studies that seek to understand how well different interventions "fit" the needs and response dispositions of different victims. Both naturalistic and randomized trials designs are adaptable to the developmental level of this field of inquiry.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 8, No. 3, 402-414 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/088626093008003008
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Child MaltreatHome page
D. J. Kolko
Individual Cognitive Behavioral Treatment and Family Therapy for Physically Abused Children and their Offending Parents: A Comparison of Clinical Outcomes
Child Maltreat, November 1, 1996; 1(4): 322 - 342.
[Abstract]

Home page
 J Interpers ViolenceHome page
N. Z. HILTON, K. T. JENNINGS, J. DRUGGE, and J. STEPHENS
Childhood Sexual Abuse Among Clinicians Working With Sex Offenders
J Interpers Violence, December 1, 1995; 10(4): 525 - 532.
[Abstract] [PDF]