Intervención psicológica desde la terapia cognitivo conductual centrada en el trauma en adolescente víctima de abuso sexual

Abstract

This work is based on the clinical case on an adolescent victim of sexual abuse, which describes and explores the problems that affect the mental health and integral development of adolescents, since it is considered a traumatic event. The objective of the trial is to identify the possible psychological sequelae resulting from sexual abuse and describe the cognitive behavioral therapy focused on trauma, through the bibliographic review in order to understand the traumatic experience and reduction of symptoms, for this it was taken as a basis the cognitive behavioral approach that focuses on working on cognitive distortions on traumatic events. Cognitive behavioral therapy focused on trauma is the main candidate to examine since there is scientific support for its effectiveness, in addition to working on thoughts and beliefs of the traumatic event such as sexual abuse.