Sex abuse identification is not an easy task. Sometimes truth only emerges because child’s report makes no sense. Frequently, no physical evidence may be a definitive prove of sex abuse, although there may be signals pointing to this direction, such as pain and itch in the genital zone or bruises.

Difficulty to sit or walk and the presence of sexually transmitted diseases bring suspicion on sex abuse. Genital or anal bleeding may indicate sexual molestation. Psychologists in front of a case of sex abuse they should change their approach form to an investigative one from a interpretative one.

Frequently, an unconscious matter or dirty fantasies may actually be a secret of telling the sex abuse. Identification of the sex abuse is complex, considering the shame, fear and guilt that contribute for the resistance of the adolescent or children to talk about.Crisis the sex abuse produces at child will be brought to life again during some time through periods of higher tension, alternating reactions from anxiety to depression.

Talking about the sex abuse as soon as possible should be offered to the children because physical & psychological effects are terrible. Rape, incest and seduction, incest and rape are predisposing aspects of later symptoms like depression, anxieties and phobias. Adolescent sexually stimulated by adults may be with excessive excitation and anxiety , lose self-confidence and become rebel.

By Adriana Sommer da Costa
Psychologist and Sexologist