"Treatment for survivors of rape: Issues and interventions" by Hensley (2002). This article was chosen since it is particularly relevant to clinical practice and treatment. The author pointed out that there are specific issues involved in treatment of trauma. The particular trauma focused on in this article was rape. Treatment of rape is important since there are so many women who experience this violence in their lifetime and it results in severe symptoms that disrupt normal functioning. Hensley noted that rape victims tend to be women although some men are raped; one in six women compared to one in 33 men are raped. Rape victims suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with intrusion, avoidance, and/or hyperarousal symptoms. Thus, issues involved in the treatment of the rape trauma is an important topic to explore. The author concluded that it is important to study this problem to provide information for counselors of rape victims. The focus of this study was to present the issues and interventions that must be considered when treating a rape victim. The article objectives were to present related information to assist mental health counselors and others in the delivery of quality services to rape victims.
Methods used for this article included a review of relevant literature to support the author's conclusions. The author presented four treatment issues in the counseling of rape and a discussion of a multimodal treatment approach. The author presented each of the four issues and each modality of the treatment approach with empirical support from literature findings.
Findings were that four treatment issues included the need to determine: sociocultural influences on the response to the rape, history of the victimization, specific nature of he assault, and experiences with victim-blame. Following this, a multimodal treatment approach for rape survivors was presented that includes the four
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