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Both the facility and parents of the children will be given letters of consent to allow the study
The art therapy will consist of painting and drawing
Each child will go through one 50 minute session per week for ten weeks
The CPSS will be scored on a nominal scale as follows:
The facility will be randomly selected by listing all of the facilities in Louisiana who specialize in child sexual abuse and randomly drawing one
The art therapy will be conducted by 10 therapists trained in the area of art therapy
The facility will be asked to cease any therapy they may be doing with the children, doing this will assure that the results are from the art therapy and will not be influenced by any other type of therapy
The IV will be art therapy
The DV will be the PTSD symptoms
Each child will have the same therapist throughout the course of the study as to not disrupt any rapport or trust which could effect the study
The CV will be the age of the children
The children will be selected through simple-random sampling
A total of 100 children will be randomly selected from a randomly selected Louisiana state facility for children who have been sexually abused
The children will each be given the Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) before therapy begins and again after therapy is complete
The max number a child can score is 58 points
In regards to compensation, each participant's name will be put into a drawing for two 50 dollar gift certificates
Each child will be assigned a number, without skipping any numbers, and the population will be selected by using a table of random numbers
I am currently interning at the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center (STAR) which counsels people who are survivors of sexual trauma. I have always been interested in the treatment of sexual abuse.
The children will all be from the same facility which means they may have already been exposed to some therapies which may effect this study
There is no controlling for gender, so it is likely the majority of participants will be female and this will make the results unbalanced with mostly female based results
If the results of this study go as predicted, then art therapy will lessen the symptoms of PTSD in children who have been sexually abused
These findings are very important because they can greatly help in therapy within the population of children survivors of sexual abuse
Will art therapy reduce the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children who have been sexually abused?
These results can greatly improve the type of therapy used in counseling sexual abuse survivors, which may lead to better results in their healing process