Child sex abuse is an unfortunate thing that happens more often and frequently than many of know. ... "Adverse outcomes for women exposed to child sex abuse range across several domains including depression, personality disturbance and substance abuse"(Fergusson, Horwood, & Lynskey, 1996) Another theory of researches about child sex abuse is that it increases the chances of substance abuse, and the development of mood disorders. ... It is found that the strongest effects of child sex abuse were drug dependence and alcohol dependence. ... Researchers previously found out that c...

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The purpose of this study was to use directed-forgetting methods to test and see if an encoding style would characterize psychiatrically impaired adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. There were three groups tested the PTSD group was made up of adult women who had been sexually abused as children and who were currently diagnosed with PTSD. ... The words ranged from everyday house hold words to words like incest or sex. ...

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