LINDA VALENTA – Let’s Talk: Addressing Sexual Abuse in the Sibling Relationship – NOTA

LINDA VALENTA – Let’s Talk: Addressing Sexual Abuse in the Sibling Relationship – NOTA

Synopsis Our responses to sibling sexual abuse continue to emphasis and promote an approach of separation to achieve safety and healing.  Consequently, therapeutic interventions with children prioritize individual therapy with the child who has engaged in the harmful behaviour and the sibling victim, and reparative interventions, if delivered at all, tend be introduced late in the treatment process and typically focus on an apology letter or a s…