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Article: Child Abuse Therapy Must Be Culturally Sensitive
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- Oakland Post
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- May 3, 1995
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Charles Aikens
Oakland Post
05-03-1995
Child Abuse Therapy Must Be Culturally Sensitive.
West Lafayette, IN-Minority victims of sexual child abuse are among the most voiceless people in society, says a Purdue University researcher.
Lisa Aronson Fontes, assistant professor of marriage and family therapy at Purdue, says intervention and therapy programs must become culturally sensitive if they are to help. Fontes has studied sexual child abuse for the last decade. Her book, "Sexual Abuse in Nine North American Cultures: Treatment and Prevention, " is being published this month by Sage Publication.
"The current social service agencies are not adequately serving minority communities, " Fontes ...