Caregiver Emotional Support and Adolescent Trauma Symptoms after Sexual Abuse: Adolescent Age Matters

Poster Session I

Keyword: Childhood Adversity

Abstract: Caregiver emotional support is theorized to be a key contributor to adolescent recovery after sexual abuse, but the potential influence of adolescent age is rarely considered. We found greater caregiver general emotional support to relate more strongly to lower levels of trauma symptoms for younger adolescents than for older adolescents.

• Rachel Chan (Presenting Author)
• Melissa Sitton (Author)
• Madeline Reedy (Author)
• Renee McDonald (Author)
• Ernest Jouriles (Author)