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July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
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Impact of child sexual abuse on mental health correlates among adolescent girls
John Jacob Mundukottackal
Agape Mental Health and Research Institute, India
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hild sexual abuse is a universal problem that occurs across gender, caste, color, religion, socio-economic group. Sexual
abuse creates intense trauma and emotional problems which create serious short term and long term psychological and
behavioral problems. 81.53% of the total incidence of child sexual abuse was reported amongst children between 11 and 18 years
of age. The pre-adolescent to the adolescent child seems to be most at risk. Child sexual abuse could have a severe impact on
the different aspects of mental as depression, stress tolerance, emotional intelligence, resilience, self-esteem and psychological
well-being. The present study is to find the impact of sexual abuse on mental health correlates among adolescent girls. For this
study, a sample of 177 adolescent girls aged 12-18 two districts of Kerala, State of India was studied. 57 sexually abused girls
from Government children’s home, 66 destitute home and 54 with parents. These groups match in terms of socio-economic
status and age. Instruments used for this study are Beck’s (1961) Beck’s Depression Inventory, Reshmy’s and Raj’s (1999) Stress
Tolerance Scale, Thomas’s and Sushma’s (2003) Emotional Intelligence Inventory, Smith’s (2008) Brief Resilience, Dhar’s and
Dhar’s (2015) Self-Esteem Scale and Sisodia’s and Choudhary’s (2012) Psychological Well-being Scale. Data were analyzed
using One-Way ANOVA and Post Hoc Test. there is a significant difference between the three groups in the six variables under
study. Sexually abused girls show a moderate level of depression while the other two groups showmild depression. All the three
groups show moderate stress level but the sexually abused children are comparatively low. The emotional intelligence abused
children in the non-abused institutionalized children. Sexually abused children have low resilience, low two groups. Thus, this
study implies severe negative impact of sexual abuse on the mental health and their correlates discussed.
Biography
John Jacob Mundukottackal is a psychologist, founder and Honorary Director of Agape Mental Health and Research Institute in the State of Kerala, India. It is an
NGO of mental health. Minor psychological problems and in developing the positive mental health of people at large. This is an untouched and developing field in
India, especially in Kerala. He has personally counseled more than 10,000 cases and has conducted more than 2000 psycho-educative sessions on mental health
for different age groups within the socio-cultural community. He is a member of ‘Child Welfare Committee’, (Government of Kerala) which consists of a bench of
magistrates responsible for implementing Juvenile Justice Act amended (2006) which protects the ‘Need of Care and Protection’ for 6 years. He is also a Research
Scholar towards Doctoral Program on the topic of ‘The Impact of Multi-Model Psychological Intervention on Mental Health correlates of Sexually Abused Adolescent
Girls’.
agapecounselling@gmail.comJohn Jacob Mundukottackal, IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-017