In South Africa sexual abuse has reached pandemic proportions and continues
to increase in the sense that thousands of people are being sexually abused
every day and the long term effects of sexual abuse are there to stay. These long
term effects are imprinted in the pre-verbal dynamics of the living body and
they can appear at any time in the present upon a conscious trigger. This
research study seeks to investigate the effectiveness of two therapeutic
modalities which are Philophonetics counselling and Trauma Focused Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy in the treatment of sexually abused individuals within the
South African context.
Philophonetics counselling extends the therapeutic conversation into the nonverbal
dimension of human communication, which enables the client to go
beyond the limitations of verbal expression and access directly feelings,
emotions, reactive patterns, old defenses and new potential embedded in the
deep layers of the living body. It is a method of exploration, expression, and
transformation of inner experiences, since words are limited in the amount of
our experience that they convey. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy is a type of intervention modality that represents a synthesis of traumasensitive
interventions and well established CBT (Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy) principles developed from the Cognitive Behavioural school of
Psychology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/620 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Mchunu, Silindile Mornicah |
| Contributors | Thwala, J.D. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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