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Article: Responding to sexual assault victims: considerations for college counselors.(Professional Issues)
- Article from:
- Journal of College Counseling
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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College counselors need to be informed of effective interventions when counseling students who have been sexually assaulted. This article applies research and theory from the general literature on counseling sexual assault victims to college counselors' work with this population. An overview of the effects of sexual assault is followed by specific implications for counseling students who have been sexually assaulted.
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The FBI estimates indicate that 1 in 4 women will be victims of sexual assault in their lifetime (Heppner et al., 1995). On college campuses, e problem of student sexual assault is particularly salient. Estimates of the ...