Factors Responsible For Sexual Abuse As Expressed By Students Of Federal College Of Education, Osiele Abeokuta, Nigeria

Help Youth Change behaviours that cause Negative Reactions in Others: Therapists examine a child’s behaviour, describe it, and then try to determine why the child is acting in this manner. A 12 year old girl, for example who threw temper tantrums explained that she felt calm because “everything inside had come out”. This child has been beaten whenever she showed any emotion, so she had learned to keep her feelings bottled up inside. Every now and then, however, she had to let those feelings go. Until she entered therapy the child had never been taught how to live with and manage real feelings; the result was tension, control and then loss of control. Has therapist worked with her using a tea kettle as a metaphor. They jointly developed a plan for the young woman to begin to let her “sleam” out in ways that would not cause concern among the people around her or allow the kettle to “blow its lid”. Through the process, the young girl learned tolerance: The ability to feel absorbs, and express her feelings appropriately.
-    Appreciate that children sustain injuries differently: Some young people are more resilient than others. A therapist needs to assess how well the young person has survived the abuse, what they think about themselves, and how they manage to reach out to others, through this process, it is important to help the youth build a history of accomplishment by emphasizing the young person’s strengths and success.
-    Help Youth Process Traumatic Material: Young people need support to deal with what happened to them, discharge their feelings, and develop a sense of mastery about that process. Unless this happens, images similar to those associated with the abusive event may trigger a post traumatic stress reaction. A youth may blow up or go into trance like behaviour for no apparent reason. This is an indication that they have unresolved traumatic material in a structured way that creates feelings of empowerment.
-    Accept that all children are different: Some children act out in-ways that continue the climate of trauma through behaviour re-enactments that keep the victim dynamic present in their life. Others want to talk constantly about the abuse and will do so even with strangers. Still other youth refuse to talk about the abuse; they say it is over and they do not want to deal with it. A good therapist will develop a plan for working with a young person on the basis that child’s behaviour, presenting problem’s personality and coping styles.
Summary of the Review of Related Literature
    The related literature that was reviewed highlighted generally the concept of youth sexuality because these, play an important role in sexual drive and sexual arousal which was said to be a factor that increases human risk of committing sexual abuse.
    Furthermore, the history and concept of youth sexual abuse, factors responsible for sexual abuse and perpetuators of sexual abuse was also reviewed by researchers, moreso, the effect of sexual abuse on its victims and it includes, Anxiety and depression, tension problems, clumsiness, sexualized behaviours wetting and soiling, self mutilation, substance abuse, suicide attempt etc. other side effects include; gynecological complications, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) etc. were discussed in the literature review.
    Finally, the reviewed literature as well highlighted and discussed how sexually abused adolescent can be treated. General guidelines to minimize sexual harassment in the workplace, and some general principles for working with sexually abused youths.