Oxana Palesh

Publication Details

• The relationship of child maltreatment and self-capacities with distress when telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse.

  Palesh O, Classen CC, Field N, Kraemer HC, Spiegel D. J Child Sex Abus. 2007; 16 (4): 63-80

  This study examined the impact of telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse and its relationship with the survivor's self-capacities and history of other child maltreatment. The baseline data were collected from 134 female CSA survivors who were participating in a large intervention study. Participants were given 10 minutes to describe their childhood sexual abuse and completed a post-interview questionnaire assessing post-traumatic stress symptoms and their emotional response. The distress in response to their narrative was both predicted and mediated by the survivors' self-capacities and other forms of child maltreatment beyond child sexual abuse.

  PubMedID: 18032246