Single-Subject Design Study: Sexual Exploitation and Teenage Sexual Abuse

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Single-Subject Design Study: Sexual Exploitation and Teenage Sexual Abuse

Introduction

Responses to sexual exploitation and childhood sexual abuse are highly individualized and complex (Van Ouytsel et al., 2021). This is because some survivors go through chronic and severe psychological symptoms while others go through little or no distress. In most cases, the range of these consequences is attributed to survivor attributes, environmental conditions, assault characteristics, and the availability of resources and social support (Madrid et al., 2020). This study explores the impacts of childhood sexual abuse and sexual exploitation on teen survivors like Tiffani. Particularly, this study seeks to study the social, psychological, and physical consequences of these traumatic experiences and identify some barriers that obstruct the provision of adequate and appropriate services for survivors in the current social service system.

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Following an increase in cases of sexual abuse among teenagers, different scholars have conducted different studies to identify the cause, consequences, and barriers that obstruct the provision of effective and appropriate services for the survivors in the current social service system. Their studies found that most teens who have faced sexual abuse experience physical, social, and psychological consequences (Dworkin, 2020). These consequences include emotional disturbances, such as low self-esteem, fear, hostility, anger, and depression, as present anxiety disorders. However, reporting some of these cases has proven to be so hard since most of the teens who have been abused sexually express no psychological symptoms or just a few non-specific signs.

Research also indicates that the effects of sexual abuse among teens have consequences even into adulthood (

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