Abstract
The past ten years has witnessed a remarkable proliferation of papers in the clinical and social science literature on the topic of incest. For example, a computer citation search from 1970 to 1982 showed more than 260 papers that discussed incest from a variety of medical, social, and sociolegal perspectives. Remarkably absent in this literature, however, are reports on how to treat the problem. The purpose of this paper is to describe a model for the treatment of incestuous families. This model, developed in 1971 by Hank Giarretto* for the Child Sex Abuse Treatment Program in San Jose, California, has been used successfully to treat more than 4000 families in the San Jose area; it is also in use in 105 satellite child sexual abuse treatment programs in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
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Brown, M.S. (1987). Father-Daughter Incest: A Model for Treatment. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6778-3_9
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