Adult survivors of child sex abuse

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Zaida Hall, Honorary research fellow,
Mullee Mullee, Senior statistical programmer,
Chris Thompson, Professor of psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton, Royal South Hampshire Hospital, Southampton SO9 9PE
Medical Statistics and Computing, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 4XY
University of Southampton, Royal South Hampshire Hospital,

Group therapies are also effective

EDITOR,--In their paper on the pilot service, Breakfree, for adult survivors (both men and women) of childhood sexual abuse David Smith and colleagues leave some points unclear.1 How many support workers were there, and how professionally trained were they? They were “initially supervised,” but by whom and for how long? The average duration of a counselling session was 1.8 hours (no range was given), sometimes twice weekly. This seems a lavish use of …