Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a prevalent problem, with just over 10% of the population suffering from this kind of abuse (Peréz-Fuentes et al., 2013). Among U.S. children, one in five girls and one in ...

We wouldn’t send a soldier with severe PTSD back to war, so why are family courts sending children back to parents who have sexually abused them? Children who have been sexually abused by a parent or ...

Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy (aka talk therapy) that focuses on bettering relationships in a family unit, as well as improving the behavior patterns of individuals and subgroups within ...

I’m a conversion-therapy survivor. I know firsthand the impossible task, and death-dealing effects, of trying to “pray the gay away.” Today, I’m also a researcher who focuses my work on conversion ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

IFS therapy is talk therapy based on a theory that everyone’s personality contains multiple “parts,” or sub-personalities, that need space to speak, grieve, and heal. It may help conditions like PTSD.