KATHRYN QUINA is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and Coordinator of the Psychology Program at the College of Continuing Educaton at the University of Rhode Island. She is coeditor of Teaching a Psychology of People: Gender and Sociocultural Awareness (1988), which won the 1988 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award.NANCY L. CARLSON is a licensed counseling psychologist with a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has been the director of university mental health centers for over ten years, directing the Counseling and Career Services at the University of Rhode Island from 1978 to 1987. She is now in private practice in Portland, Maine. Together with colleague Hazel Temple, the authors wrote Sexual Assault and Harassment: Myths and Reality, a guide for the University of Rhode Island community, published and distributed to all students, faculty, and staff in 1981 and 1983.

• PrefaceThe Issues Raised by VictimizationIntroduction and PerspectivesUnderstanding VictimizationHelping ApproachesThe Immediate Aftermath of Sexual AbusePosttraumatic PhasesMedical InterventionLegal InterventionCounseling Survivors of Sexual AbusePromoting RecoveryEmotional AftereffectsCounseling ModelsIndividual ConsiderationsAppendix I: Types of Professional CounselorsAppendix II: The Victim BookletBibliographyName IndexSubject Index

KATHRYN QUINA is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and Coordinator of the Psychology Program at the College of Continuing Educaton at the University of Rhode Island. She is coeditor of Teaching a Psychology of People: Gender and Sociocultural Awareness (1988), which won the 1988 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award.NANCY L. CARLSON is a licensed counseling psychologist with a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has been the director of university mental health centers for over ten years, directing the Counseling and Career Services at the University of Rhode Island from 1978 to 1987. She is now in private practice in Portland, Maine. Together with colleague Hazel Temple, the authors wrote Sexual Assault and Harassment: Myths and Reality, a guide for the University of Rhode Island community, published and distributed to all students, faculty, and staff in 1981 and 1983.

• PrefaceThe Issues Raised by VictimizationIntroduction and PerspectivesUnderstanding VictimizationHelping ApproachesThe Immediate Aftermath of Sexual AbusePosttraumatic PhasesMedical InterventionLegal InterventionCounseling Survivors of Sexual AbusePromoting RecoveryEmotional AftereffectsCounseling ModelsIndividual ConsiderationsAppendix I: Types of Professional CounselorsAppendix II: The Victim BookletBibliographyName IndexSubject Index

KATHRYN QUINA is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and Coordinator of the Psychology Program at the College of Continuing Educaton at the University of Rhode Island. She is coeditor of Teaching a Psychology of People: Gender and Sociocultural Awareness (1988), which won the 1988 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award.NANCY L. CARLSON is a licensed counseling psychologist with a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has been the director of university mental health centers for over ten years, directing the Counseling and Career Services at the University of Rhode Island from 1978 to 1987. She is now in private practice in Portland, Maine. Together with colleague Hazel Temple, the authors wrote Sexual Assault and Harassment: Myths and Reality, a guide for the University of Rhode Island community, published and distributed to all students, faculty, and staff in 1981 and 1983.

• PrefaceThe Issues Raised by VictimizationIntroduction and PerspectivesUnderstanding VictimizationHelping ApproachesThe Immediate Aftermath of Sexual AbusePosttraumatic PhasesMedical InterventionLegal InterventionCounseling Survivors of Sexual AbusePromoting RecoveryEmotional AftereffectsCounseling ModelsIndividual ConsiderationsAppendix I: Types of Professional CounselorsAppendix II: The Victim BookletBibliographyName IndexSubject Index